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oapen-20.500.12657-585222023-02-01T09:02:59Z Engines of Truth Schneider, Wendie Ellen History Political Science bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider's examination of the Victorian courtroom charts this period of experimentation and how its innovations shaped contemporary trial procedure. Blending legal, social, and colonial history, she shines new light on cross-examination, the most enduring product of this time and the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. 2022-10-06T05:30:51Z 2022-10-06T05:30:51Z 2016 book 9780300216554 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58522 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Yale University Press Yale University Press https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300125665.001.0001 103442 https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300125665.001.0001 c659c18b-223e-46c9-952d-3e6aa9f19cc6 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780300216554 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Yale University Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider's examination of the Victorian courtroom charts this period of experimentation and how its innovations shaped contemporary trial procedure. Blending legal, social, and colonial history, she shines new light on cross-examination, the most enduring product of this time and the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
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