Sinners on Trial

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Sinners on Trial is written by Magda Teter and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674061330 (ISBN 10) and 9780674061330 (ISBN 13).

Criminal law became a key tool in the effort to legitimize Church authority in post-Reformation Poland. Recounting dramatic stories of torture, trial, and punishment involving Christians and Jews, this is the first book to consider the sacrilege accusations of the early modern period within the broader context of politics and common crime.