A Dissertation on Trial by Fire and Water
Dissertatio, de probatione, quae fieri olim solebat per ignem et aquam; cum ferventem, tum frigidam
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No English translation of Fridericus Heinius's 1620 Latin dissertation 'De probatione, quae fieri olim solebat per ignem et aquam' was found in any major bibliographic database or scholarly catalog. The work is a specialized legal-philological text originally published as part of a collection by Christoph Besold, and there is no record of it being translated into English in its entirety.
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Step into a world where rivers judged the legitimacy of infants and boiling water determined the guilt of the accused. Fridericus Heinius deconstructs the 'diabolical instinct' behind trials by ordeal, tracing the evolution of justice from superstitious 'magic' to a profound philosophical inquiry into the nature of God.
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