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He details a variety of ordeals and the ceremonies accompanying them.

He details a variety of ordeals and the ceremonies accompanying them. I think it is especially interesting how Bartlett uses the demise of the ordeal as an indicator of social change and a fundamental alteration in belief systems.

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Robert Bartlett is Wardlaw Professor of Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews.

Bartlett presents a critique of recent theories about the operation and the decline of the practice, and he attempts to make sense of. .Robert Bartlett is Wardlaw Professor of Medieval History at the University of St.

Bartlett presents a critique of recent theories about the operation and the decline of the practice, and he attempts to make sense of the ordeal as a working institution and to explain its disappearance. Finally, he considers some of the general historical problems of understanding a society in which religious beliefs were so fundamental. Published by Echo Point Books & Media 3/29/2014 (2014).

German Knighthood 1050-1300 (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints). This is a thorough and original study of German knighthood as a class in its medieval heyday. Arnold draws on a rich array of descriptive detail from the lives of individual knights, their families, and various groups to examine knightly customs and practices, the impact of knighthood in the political world of the German Empire, and the curious status of most knights as at once noble and unfree.

His book, "The Making of Europe" (1993) won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History.

He discusses recent theories about the operation and decline of the practice, shedding new light on both the ordeal as a working institution and the pressure for its abolition. Robert Bartlett is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrew's in Scotland and a Fellow of the British Academy. His book, "The Making of Europe" (1993) won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History.

integral, and often staggeringly effective, role in justice systems for centuries.

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2009. The Medieval Judicial Ordeal. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 166 (Bibliography) 3 and (Index) 12 pp.

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