TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lea,Henry Charles
AU  - Howland,Arthur E.
AU  - Peters,Edward
TI  - The Ordeal
T2  - The Middle Ages Series
SN  - 9780812210613
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Law, Medieval
KW  - Ordeal
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - European History
KW  - History
KW  - Medieval and Renaissance Studies
KW  - World History
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; I. Universal Invocation of the Judgment of God --; II. Ordeal of Boiling Water --; III. Ordeal of Red-Hot Iron --; IV. Ordeal of Fire --; V. Ordeal of Cold Water --; VI. Ordeal of the Balance --; VII. Ordeal of the Cross --; VIII. The Corsnæd --; X. Ordeal of the Lot --; XI. Bier-Right --; XII. Oaths as Ordeals --; XIII. Poison Ordeals --; XIV. Irregular Ordeals --; XV. Conditions of the Ordeal --; XVI. Confidence Reposed in the Ordeal --; XVII. The Church and the Ordeal --; XVIII. Repressive Secular Legislation --; Appendix; restricted access
N2  - Henry Charles Lea was one of the first American historians to use what would later be termed comparative and anthropological approaches to history. Under his pen, the study of the medieval ordeal becomes a study in cultural history.Reprinted here from the fourth revised edition of 1892, the book begins by tracing the role of the ordeal in non-Western and ancient societies, showing the mental world to which it belongs: a limited trust in the public order and purely human methods of inquiry, and a larger faith in divine intervention and immanent justice. The work then describes the uses of the institution through the European Middle Ages to its final abolition, and in the process offers a rich typology of ordeals. Additional documents included in this edition present formulas and descriptions of some of the ordeals most frequently used: the ordeal by boiling water, by hot water, by cold water, by hot iron and water, by glowing plowshares, by fire, and the ordeal of the cross
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512817492
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