Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Expanded Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Torture - Past and Present - and the Historian -- 1 A Delicate and Dangerous Business -- The emergence of torture in Greek law -- Torture in Roman law -- The character of Roman torture -- Roman law and Germanic societies -- 2 The Queen of Proofs and the Queen of Torments -- The legal revolution of the twelfth century -- The return of torture -- The jurisprudence of torture -- The inquisition -- Torture in the ancien régime -- 3 The Sleep of Reason -- Abolition, law and moral sensibility -- Abolition: the historians at work -- Statutory abolition -- Some comparisons -- The freeing of the law -- 4 'Engines of the State, not of Law' -- At the margins of the law -- The police and the state -- Warfare, prisoners and military intelligence -- Political crime -- Law and the state in revolutionary societies -- The discovery of Algeria -- 5 'To become, or to remain, human ... ' -- A new Enlightenment? -- The language of Eden -- After Algeria -- Room 101 - and other rooms -- Without end? -- A Bibliographical Essay -- Bibliographical Addendum: Torture-History and Practice, 1985-1995 -- Postscript, 1999 -- Appendix: Judicial Torture-Documents and Commentary -- I. The Theodosian Code, Book 9, Title 35 -- II. The Digest of Justinian, Book 48, Title 18 -- III. The Code of Justinian, Book 9, Title 41 -- IV. Augustine: The City of God, XIX. 6 -- V. The Visigothic Code: On Torture -- VI. Torture by Inquisitors: Innocent IV and Alexander IV -- VII. The Constitutio Criminalis Carolina -- VIII. The Jurisprudence of Torture: Sebastian Guazzini -- IX. John Locke: Letter on Toleration -- X. The Moral Protest: Cesare Beccaria -- XI. A Twentieth-Century Interrogator's Manual on Torture