Trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel
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Trial by Combat
Trial by combat is not limited to noblemen, it can involve townsmen and even jewish people. They take place very often in a kind of specially constructed what we call lists. The idea is that then nobody can run away from the fight. Crowds which are particularly big would have been around 10,000 or 15,000 at one time.
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