Episode Six – On Trial By Ordeal – Witch-Hunting And Superstition

Here’s the FINAL missing episode – with the sound fixed and an addition from a recent news report! Professor Peter T. Leeson’s paper on ‘Ordeals’ looks at the medieval superstition ‘iudicium dei’ – or the judgment of God – the practice of judging a person’s innocence or guilt by ordeal. This could include putting your arm into boiling water, being dunked or even being burnt alive. “It was expected that God,... Read More