Did "Trial by Ordeal" Actually Work?

A man is accused of a crime. Is he guilty? Stick...  ...is is the basic premise of the legal tradition of trial by ordeal , discredited since the Enlightenment. But was it...  ...st Peter T. Leeson says "yes": How might these trials have worked, without divine interventio...

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