Title: The ordeal /
Authors: Lea, Henry Charles,
Date: 1973
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Physical description: xxix, 199 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: L
Contents: Universal invocation of the judgment of God -- Ordeal of boiling water -- Ordeal of red-hot iron -- Ordeal of fire -- Ordeal of cold water -- Ordeal of balance -- Ordeal of the cross -- The corsnaed -- The eucharist as an ordeal -- Ordeal of the lot -- Bier-right -- Oaths as ordeals -- Poison ordeals -- Irregular ordeals -- Conditions of the ordeal -- Confidence reposed in the ordeal -- The church and the ordeal -- Confidence reposed in the ordeal -- The church and the ordeal -- Repressive secular legislation
Notes: "First published, 1866, as part III, Superstition and force."
Subject headings (LCSH): Law, Medieval.; Ordeal.