Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture
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Lea examines the brutal logic behind medieval ordeals and torture as legal proof systems, revealing how societies once weaponized God and nature itself to establish guilt—a chilling historical analysis that questions what we consider progress. His scholarship reads like a legal thriller grounded in horrifying fact.
About this book
Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture is an ebook by Henry Charles Lea (1825–1909). This edition runs to roughly 694 pages, about 14 hours of reading at a typical pace.
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About the Author
Henry Charles Lea (1825–1909) has 3 books in the BigBookHub catalogue: A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3, Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law, the W… and The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naple….
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