Superstition and Force / Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture Papyras Classics

Superstition and Force / Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture

by Henry Charles Lea

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Chapter I. Responsibility of the Kindred
  3. Chapter II. The Oath and Its Accessories
  4. Chapter III. Conjurators, or Partakers in the Oath
  5. Chapter IV. Selection of Compurgators
  6. Chapter V. Conditions of Compurgation
  7. Chapter VI. Formulas and Procedure
  8. Chapter VII. Decline of Compurgation
  9. Chapter VIII. Accusatorial Conjurators
  10. Chapter I
  11. Chapter II. Origin of the Judicial Duel
  12. Chapter III. Universal Use of the Judicial Combat
  13. Chapter IV. Confidence Reposed in the Judicial Duel
  14. Chapter V. Limitations on the Wager of Battle
  15. Chapter VI. Regulations of the Judicial Combat
  16. Chapter VII. Champions
  17. Chapter VIII. Decline of the Judicial Combat
  18. Chapter I. Universal Invocation of the Judgment of God
  19. Chapter II. The Ordeal of Boiling Water
  20. Chapter III. The Ordeal of Red-Hot Iron
  21. Chapter IV. The Ordeal of Fire
  22. Chapter V. The Ordeal of Cold Water
  23. Chapter VI. The Ordeal of the Balance
  24. Chapter VII. The Ordeal of the Cross
  25. Chapter VIII. The Corsnæd
  26. Chapter IX. The Eucharist as an Ordeal
  27. Chapter X. The Ordeal of the Lot
  28. Chapter XI. Bier-Right
  29. Chapter XII. Oaths as Ordeals
  30. Chapter XIII. Poison Ordeals
  31. Chapter XIV. Irregular Ordeals
  32. Chapter XV. Conditions of the Ordeal
  33. Chapter XVI. Confidence Reposed in the Ordeal
  34. Chapter XVII. The Church and the Ordeal
  35. Chapter XVIII. Repressive Secular Legislation
  36. Chapter I. Torture in Egypt and Asia
  37. Chapter II. Greece and Rome
  38. Chapter III. The Barbarians
  39. Chapter IV. The Goths and Spain
  40. Chapter V. Carlovingian and Feudal Law
  41. Chapter VI. Reappearance of Torture
  42. Chapter VII. The Inquisitorial Process
  43. Chapter VIII. Final Shape of the Torture System
  44. Chapter IX. England and the Northern Races
  45. Chapter X. Decline of the Torture System

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