Henry Charles Lea was one of the first American historians to use
what would later be termed comparative and anthropological
approaches to history. Under his pen, the study of the medieval
ordeal becomes a study in cultural history. Reprinted here from the
fourth revised edition of 1892, the book begins by tracing the role
of the ordeal in non-Western and ancient societies, showing the
mental world to which it belongs: a limited trust in the public
order and purely human methods of inquiry, and a larger faith in
divine intervention and immanent justice. The work then describes
the uses of the institution through the European Middle Ages to its
final abolition, and in the process offers a rich typology of
ordeals. Additional documents included in this edition present
formulas and descriptions of some of the ordeals most frequently
used: the ordeal by boiling water, by hot water, by cold water, by
hot iron and water, by glowing plowshares, by fire, and the ordeal
of the cross.
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