Superstition and Force. Essays on The Wager of Law, The Wager of..

by Henry C. Lea

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Lea, Henry C. Superstition and Force. Essays on The Wager of Law - The Wager of Battle-The Ordeal-Torture. New York: Haskell House Publishers. 2013 reprint of the 1870 second edition, revised. xii , 480 pp. Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine. Internally clean and bright. 50. * Essays on the wager of law, the wager of battle, the ordeal, torture. Still valuable for the history of forms of trial throughout the Middle Ages.

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