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2007-01-21 12:58:42 · 4 answers · asked by questioner 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Medieval Justice looks a lot like the law of sharia. My favorite bits were the trials by combat. In a trial by combat the two disputing parties would engage each other in combat usually until one or the other yielded. Also interesting was the test of god. To prove your innocence you would plunge your hand into a pot of coals. If you were burned you were guilty.
2007-01-21 13:10:06 · answer #1 · answered by corvuequis 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try "Quo Warranto Proceedings in the Reign of Edward I" by Donald Sutherland. This covers 1284-1304. He goes into private persons exercising royal rights of justice in England such as the assize of bread and ale, utfangentheof and anfangentheof, and the right to keep a gallows. As for the English kings' own enforcement, look up justices in eyre in google (circuit riders).
2007-01-21 13:15:04 · answer #2 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
there really wasn't any look up medieval torture
2007-01-21 13:03:14 · answer #3 · answered by Ana C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-01-21 13:02:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋