The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
E. P. Evans examines one of the strangest chapters in European legal history: the trial and punishment of animals. He distinguishes two kinds of proceedings. Secular courts tried pigs, cows, horses and other domestic animals for killing human beings and sent them to the gallows with full judicial ceremony, while church courts summoned rats, mice, locusts, weevils and other vermin to answer for destroying crops, appointed lawyers to defend them and pronounced sentences of banishment or excommunication. Evans gathers case after case from the Middle Ages to the early modern period, adds an appendix of documents and a bibliography, and asks what these practices reveal about changing ideas of justice and responsibility. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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