I've just got to pull myself away from the Web today -- I keep finding all this good stuff.Image: Trial by combat in a French treatise of the 1460s. (This image was used for the cover of my book Deeds of Arms.)
I've just got to pull myself away from the Web today -- I keep finding all this good stuff.
Thanks for the link!
ReplyDeleteMy only quibble is that medieval trial by combat wasn't just practiced by the aristocracy. There were plenty of documented duels between commoners. Nevertheless, I think Scoville's point about present-day politics still stands.
Ariella Elema