Trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel
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The Song of Roland, a Medieval Epic of Trial by Combat
How is trial by combat represented in art and literature of the time? Yets, a great question. As over there are some texts which m give us some wonderfully kind of rich accounts of trial by combat that sort of fits the plot perfectly. And then there are others which really point to just how problematic it is. The song of roland was probably the greatest mediaeval epic,. or chanson s m, which was first committed to manuscript in the early twelfth century.
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