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Ordeal Compurgation and Torture

Historical studies of oaths, compurgation, judicial combat, ordeal, coercive proof, and torture.

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Texts

Superstition and Force — Henry Charles LeaHenry Charles Lea's complete 1892 documentary history of compurgation, judicial combat, ordeals, and torture.