Trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel
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Trial by Combat
The idea that you would go to your lord, your king, and then there wouldn't be anadequate judgment. Trial by combat becomes increasingly a last resort over the course of the middle ages. The first examples are in burgundian lands in the early middle ages. Thereare lots of examples sor of throughout what we might broadly term germanic lands.
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