On the dock

We know a lot about Socrates or Jesus being convicted at the time, Jeanne dArc and Galileo were on trial But what exactly happened? Even those who so often refer to these lawsuits don’t really know the background. After all, they took place at different ages, in different social, political and economic situations. Their backgrounds were different, the reasons for the participants were different. More than once, there were plays designed similar to twentieth-century political sweeps, in which the victims had to take part. most of them to death Who were the judges and who wanted at all costs for the accused to perish from this world? Why did their vile plan work sometimes, and why did it fail at another? The author describes the events very accurately. Not only does it broaden our historical knowledge, but it also provides a number of small but distinctive and important details that make us feel almost close to the defendants, but also to the age in which they had to live and die.