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Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature

Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature PDF Author: Vickie L. Ziegler
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571132918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Well after the condemnation of ordeals by the Fourth Lateran Council, the Kunigunde legend preserves the ordeal by fire in a sort of hagiographic amber, much as it was portrayed in the mid-twelfth-century Richardis legend, while Stricker's short secular burlesque "The Hot Iron," written in the mid-thirteenth century, makes sport of this formerly serious legal proceeding, reflecting the almost immediate abandonment of trial by fire as a legal proof in many areas after the council's decision."