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Before the Enlightenment the point of a trial was not proportional justice but the interior spiritual correction of the sinner's soul.
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- Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
The ideal of this period's justice which is much more shaped by Christianity is the purpose of the trial is the spiritual interior correction of the soul of the sinner.
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Watch from 0:41:19 plays here↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com
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