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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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