Superstition and Force

Name: Superstition and Force
Author: Henry Charles Lea

by Henry Charles Lea

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Superstition and Force Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture

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Project Gutenberg

Release date

2019-01-22

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Public domain in the USA.

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Torture Wager of law Wager of battle Ordeal

About the author

Henry Charles Lea

1825–1909

A leading American historian of religion and law, he became best known for sweeping studies of the medieval Church and the Inquisition. Working from Philadelphia, he built a reputation for painstaking research and wrote books that shaped how later readers understood ecclesiastical history.

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