Ordeal by Innocents: the Law and Liturgy of Trial by Water in Early Medieval Iberia
(2024)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G. (2024). Ordeal by Innocents: the Law and Liturgy of Trial by Water in Early Medieval Iberia. In G. Barrett, & L. J. Wilkinson (Eds.), Lincoln Readings of Texts, Materials, and Contexts (187-235). ARC Humanities Press
This article studies trial by hot water in late antique and early medieval Iberia across three genres of source material. I first consider the marginal position of the law on “the ordeal of the cauldron” in the oldest copies of the Visigothic code, a... Read More about Ordeal by Innocents: the Law and Liturgy of Trial by Water in Early Medieval Iberia.