Manners, customs, and dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance period (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers and Son · leaf 425
dopted the judicial duel (Fig. 300). This was imposed first upon the disputing parties, then on the witnesses, and sometimes even on the judges themselves. Dating from the reign of the Emperor Otho the Great in 967, the judicial duel, which had been at first restricted to the most serious cases,… … Fig. 301. — Judicial Duel. — Combat of a Knight with a Dog. — Fac-simile of a Miniature in the Romance of " Maoaire," of the Thirteenth Century (Library of the Arsenal of Paris). champion, whose sole business was to take in hand the quarrels of others. Ecclesiastics were obliged, in the same…
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