Medieval Trials: Selected Images
Trials by Ordeal
Ordeal of the boiling water
The Ordeal of Queen Emma (hot
ploughshares)
The Ordeal of
Cunigunde of Luxembourg (hot ploughsh
ares)
Trial by water (1)
Trial by water (2)(17th century engraving)
Ordeal of the morsel
Pope Innocent II
I (Pope who, in 1215, forbid priests from participat
ing in ordeals)
The Cadaver Synod (The "Dead Pope Trial")
Pope Formosus
Pope Stephen VI
T
he Trial of Pope Formosus (Le Pape Formose et Etienne VI by Jean Paul Lauren
s)
The Icelandic Trial of Kari v Flosi (1012, from the Njals Saga)
Njals Sag
a manuscript (circa 1300)
Page from N
jals
Saga manuscript
Kari Solmundarson
The Law Rock in Iceland
Map of Iceland during the age of the Sagas (from Njal's Saga, edited by Magnusson and Palsson)
Trial by Combat: The Carrouges vs Le Gris Duel
Combatants in duel taking oaths
Notes kept by lawyer for Le Gris (from
The Last Duel
by Eric Jager)
Map showing St. Martin-des-Champs, site of duel
Climax of Carrouges- Le Gris Duel
King Charles VI
Trial by combat scene
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