[Public Domain Review] Bugs and Beasts Before the Law

[Public Domain Review]

Murderous pigs sent to the gallows, sparrows prosecuted for chattering
in Church, a gang of thieving rats let off on a wholly technical
acquittal – theoretical psychologist and author Nicholas Humphrey
explores the strange world of medieval animal trials.

http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/2011/03/27/bugs-and-beasts-before-the-law/