Superstition and Force
Essays on The Wager of Law—The Wager of Battle—The Ordeal—Torture
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SUPERSTITION AND FORCE.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
I. THE WAGER OF LAW.
CHAPTER I. RESPONSIBILITY OF THE KINDRED.
CHAPTER II. THE OATH AND ITS ACCESSORIES.
CHAPTER III. CONJURATORS, OR PARTAKERS IN THE OATH.
CHAPTER IV. SELECTION OF COMPURGATORS.
CHAPTER V. CONDITIONS OF COMPURGATION.
CHAPTER VI. FORMULAS AND PROCEDURE.
CHAPTER VII. DECLINE OF COMPURGATION.
CHAPTER VIII. ACCUSATORIAL CONJURATORS.
II. THE WAGER OF BATTLE.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II. ORIGIN OF THE JUDICIAL DUEL.
CHAPTER III. UNIVERSAL USE OF THE JUDICIAL COMBAT.
CHAPTER IV. CONFIDENCE REPOSED IN THE JUDICIAL DUEL.
CHAPTER V. LIMITATIONS ON THE WAGER OF BATTLE.
CHAPTER VI. REGULATIONS OF THE JUDICIAL COMBAT.
CHAPTER VII. CHAMPIONS.
CHAPTER VIII. DECLINE OF THE JUDICIAL COMBAT.
III. THE ORDEAL.
CHAPTER I. UNIVERSAL INVOCATION OF THE JUDGMENT OF GOD.
CHAPTER II. THE ORDEAL OF BOILING WATER.
CHAPTER III. THE ORDEAL OF RED-HOT IRON.
CHAPTER IV. THE ORDEAL OF FIRE.
CHAPTER V. THE ORDEAL OF COLD WATER.
CHAPTER VI. THE ORDEAL OF THE BALANCE.
CHAPTER VII. THE ORDEAL OF THE CROSS.
CHAPTER VIII. THE CORSNÆD.
CHAPTER IX. THE EUCHARIST AS AN ORDEAL.
CHAPTER X. THE ORDEAL OF THE LOT.
CHAPTER XI. BIER-RIGHT.
CHAPTER XII. OATHS AS ORDEALS.
CHAPTER XIII. POISON ORDEALS.
CHAPTER XIV. IRREGULAR ORDEALS.
CHAPTER XV. CONDITIONS OF THE ORDEAL.
CHAPTER XVI. CONFIDENCE REPOSED IN THE ORDEAL.
CHAPTER XVII. THE CHURCH AND THE ORDEAL.
CHAPTER XVIII. REPRESSIVE SECULAR LEGISLATION.
IV. TORTURE.
CHAPTER I. TORTURE IN EGYPT AND ASIA.
CHAPTER II. GREECE AND ROME.
CHAPTER III. THE BARBARIANS.
CHAPTER IV. THE GOTHS AND SPAIN.
CHAPTER V. CARLOVINGIAN AND FEUDAL LAW.
CHAPTER VI. REAPPEARANCE OF TORTURE.
CHAPTER VII. THE INQUISITORIAL PROCESS.
CHAPTER VIII. FINAL SHAPE OF THE TORTURE SYSTEM.
CHAPTER IX. ENGLAND AND THE NORTHERN RACES.
CHAPTER X. DECLINE OF THE TORTURE SYSTEM.
INDEX.
FOOTNOTES:
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