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Superstition and Force

by Henry Charles Lea

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  1. 1Note — Preface
  2. 2I — The Wager of Law
  3. 3Chapter II — The Oath and Its Accessories
  4. 4Chapter III — Conjurators, or Partakers in the Oath
  5. 5Chapter IV — Selection of Compurgators
  6. 6Chapter V — Conditions of Compurgation
  7. 7Chapter VI — Formulas and Procedure
  8. 8Chapter VII — Decline of Compurgation
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Accusatorial Conjurators
  10. 10II — The Wager of Battle
  11. 11Chapter II — Origin of the Judicial Duel
  12. 12Chapter III — Universal Use of the Judicial Combat
  13. 13Chapter IV — Confidence Reposed in the Judicial Duel
  14. 14Chapter V — Limitations on the Wager of Battle
  15. 15Chapter VI — Regulations of the Judicial Combat
  16. 16Chapter VII — Champions
  17. 17Chapter VIII — Decline of the Judicial Combat
  18. 18III — The Ordeal
  19. 19Chapter II — The Ordeal of Boiling Water
  20. 20Chapter III — The Ordeal of Red-Hot Iron
  21. 21Chapter IV — The Ordeal of Fire
  22. 22Chapter V — The Ordeal of Cold Water
  23. 23Chapter VI — The Ordeal of the Balance
  24. 24Chapter VII — The Ordeal of the Cross
  25. 25Chapter VIII — The Corsnæd
  26. 26Chapter IX — The Eucharist as an Ordeal
  27. 27Chapter X — The Ordeal of the Lot
  28. 28Chapter XI — Bier-Right
  29. 29Chapter XII — Oaths as Ordeals
  30. 30Chapter XIII — Poison Ordeals
  31. 31Chapter XIV — Irregular Ordeals
  32. 32Chapter XV — Conditions of the Ordeal
  33. 33Chapter XVI — Confidence Reposed in the Ordeal
  34. 34Chapter XVII — The Church and the Ordeal
  35. 35Chapter XVIII — Repressive Secular Legislation
  36. 36IV — Torture
  37. 37Chapter II — Greece and Rome
  38. 38Chapter III — The Barbarians
  39. 39Chapter IV — The Goths and Spain
  40. 40Chapter V — Carlovingian and Feudal Law
  41. 41Chapter VI — Reappearance of Torture
  42. 42Chapter VII — The Inquisitorial Process
  43. 43Chapter VIII — Final Shape of the Torture System
  44. 44Chapter IX — England and the Northern Races
  45. 45Chapter X — Decline of the Torture System

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