Ordeals, compurgation, excommunication, and interdict
By: Edited by Arthur C. Howland
Edition: Revised ed.
Series: Translations and reprints from the original sources of European history -- vol. 4, no.4
Publisher: The Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania; Longmans, Green & Co.
Published: 1908
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Law; History; Wager of law; Ordeal; Wager of battle; Excommunication; Interdict (Canon law)
Notes: Cover title.

"Bibliographical note": p. 32-33.
Table of contents: title: I. Compurgation: 1. Examples of Compurgatorial oaths. 2. Compurgation of Queen Fredegonda. 3. Compurgation of Adelher's brothers. 4. Compurgation of Bishop Norgaud. 5. Frisian law against perjury. 6. Reform in the compurgatorial system.; title: II. Judgments of God - Ordeals: 1. Ordeal formula. 2. Ordeal of hot water. 3. Ordeal of cold water. 4. Ordeal of red-hot iron. 5. Ordeal of the glowing ploughshares. 6. Ordeal of fire. 7. Ordeal of the cross. 8. Scepticism regarding the ordeal. 9. Prohibition of the ordeal by the church. 10. Prohibition by Frederic II.; title: III. Judgments of God - Wager of battle: 1. Example of judicial duel in Germany. 2. Example of judicial duel in Spain. 3. Prohibition of judicial duel by Frederic II.