Author: Thomson, Arthur [1891-1977]
Title: I stocken : Studier i stockstraffets historia
Description: Lund, C.W.K. Gleerup, 1972. boards. 23x16cm, 421 pp, Contemporary binder's cloth-backed boards with original cover wrappers mounted on.. Inked underlinings and notes throughout text. Just Good. ¶ Weighs 1.2 kilos. Series: Acta Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis / Skrifter utg. av Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund, 68. Swedish text. Includes a 30-page English summary. Legal/ penological-historical study of the use of stocks as punishment. Contents: Stocks in the Bible (& certain instances of legal usage); Religious representations of the stocks; Stocks as an instrument of torture; Stocks in Nordic medieval law; Stocks ("Gabestok") in Danish & Norwegian secular statutes & legal usage; Stocks in post-Reformation German religious Llgislation & legal usage; Stocks ("Gabestok") in Danish & Norwegian religious legislation & judicial practice from the reformation to the beginning of the 18th century; The stocks in the Ecclesiastical Law of 1571& in ecclesisastical statutes of the 17th century; The stocks in the privileges of the clergy & in Royal Statutes of the 1680s; The stocks in Swedish legislation & legal usage after 1723; The stocks ('Gabestok') in Danish & Norwegian ecclesiastical legislation from 1730 onward; The stocks in America; The abolition of the stocks.

Keywords: Swedish Legal History, Scandinavia, Scandinavian, Sweden Stocks, Punishment, Penology, Ecclesiastical Law, Penal,