The following is a list from the book Uncle John's...  ...ts, No jury. For judges in medieval Europe, every trial was he said, she said. so they sometimes looked f...  ...sked to prove your innocence through one of these ordeals .1. GLOWING IRONAn iron rod was heated until it wa...  ..., so he would float, follo...

A man is accused of a crime. Is he guilty? Stick...  ...is is the basic premise of the legal tradition of trial by ordeal , discredited since the Enlightenment. But was it...  ...st Peter T. Leeson says "yes": How might these trials have worked, without divine interventio...