Ordeals, compurgation, excommunication, and interdict. / Edited by Arthur C. Howland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howland, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1869-1952, editor.

Series:

Translations and reprints from the original sources of European history ; v. 4, no. 4.

Translations and reprints from the original sources of European history ; vol. IV, no. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--History.

Law.

History.

Wager of law.

Ordeal.

Wager of battle.

Excommunication.

Interdict (Canon law).

Physical Description:

33 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Dept. of History of the University of Pennsylvania; London : P.S. King, 1898.

Contents:

I. Compurgation: 1. Examples of Compurgatorial oaths. 2. Compurgation of Queen Fredegonda. 3. Compurgation of Adelher's brothers. 4. Compurgation of Bishop Norgaud. 5. Frisian law against perjury. 6. Reform in the compurgatorial system.

II. Judgments of God - Ordeals: 1. Ordeal formula. 2. Ordeal of hot water. 3. Ordeal of cold water. 4. Ordeal of red-hot iron. 5. Ordeal of the glowing ploughshares. 6. Ordeal of fire. 7. Ordeal of the cross. 8. Scepticism regarding the ordeal. 9. Prohibition of the ordeal by the church. 10. Prohibition by Frederic II.

III. Judgments of God - Wager of battle: 1. Example of judicial duel in Germany. 2. Example of judicial duel in Spain. 3. Prohibition of Judicial duel by Frederic II.

IV. Excommunications: 1. St. Cyprian on the unity of the church. 2. St. Ambrose's threat against Theodosius. 3. Law of Lothair I. 4. Law of Frederic II. 5. Excommunication of Frederic II. 6. Example of excommunication ipso facto. 7. Excommunication of animals. 8. Declaration of Louis XIV.

V. Interdict: 1. Canon of the Council of Limoges. 2. Interdict laid on Normandy. 3. Interdict laid on France. 4. Interdict laid on Venice in 1309. 5. Interdict laid on Utrecht. 6. Failure of the interdict laid on Venice in 1606.

Notes:

Cover title.

"Bibliographical note": page 34.

OCLC:

4038275