{"product_id":"9781584779858","title":"Trial By Combat","description":"\"All the authorities on the subject, I believe, are collected in this excellent book.\" Sir Frederick Pollock, The Genius of the Common Law\u003cp\u003eAlthough it is not known exactly when trial by combat, battle, or duel began as a method of conflict resolution, its origin certainly goes back before the feudal era. Neilson focuses on Britain and Scotland and traces this tradition from before the Middle Ages to the Appeal of Murder Act of 1819. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I. PRELIMINARY: EUROPE\u003cbr\u003e1. Before the Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e2. King Gundobald, A.D. 501\u003cbr\u003e3. Mode of Battle\u003cbr\u003e4. Among the Norsemen\u003cbr\u003e5. The Church\u003cbr\u003e6. Decadence and Extinction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART II. ORIGIN IN BRITAIN\u003cbr\u003e7. A Question Stated\u003cbr\u003e8. Norse Evidence\u003cbr\u003e9. English and Scotch Evidence\u003cbr\u003e10. The Question Answered\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART III. ENGLAND, 1066-1300: LAW\u003cbr\u003e11. Legal Outline\u003cbr\u003e12. Sketch of Procedure\u003cbr\u003e13. The Duel in Finance\u003cbr\u003e14. The Approver\u003cbr\u003e15. The Champion\u003cbr\u003e16. Some Churchmen's Champions\u003cbr\u003e17. Another Champion's Contract\u003cbr\u003e18. Three Early Duels, A.D. 1096-1163\u003cbr\u003e19. A Hibernian Hero\u003cbr\u003e20. Charters and Charter Stories\u003cbr\u003e21. An Incident, A.D. 1267\u003cbr\u003e22. Reactionary Signs\u003cbr\u003e23. Review and Prospect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART IV. SCOTLAND TILL 1300: LAW\u003cbr\u003e24. In Early Scotland\u003cbr\u003e25. Under David the First\u003cbr\u003e26. Under William the Lion\u003cbr\u003e27. Writ of Right\u003cbr\u003e28. The Battle\u003cbr\u003e29. An Argument\u003cbr\u003e30. Exemptions from Duel\u003cbr\u003e31. Regiam Majestâtem\u003cbr\u003e32. In the Regiam\u003cbr\u003e33. Crime in the Regiam\u003cbr\u003e34. Under Alexander II and after\u003cbr\u003e35. The Duel Described\u003cbr\u003e36. March Law\u003cbr\u003e37. 'The Lawis of Merchis,' A.D. 1249\u003cbr\u003e38. Recorded Duels from 1155\u003cbr\u003e39. A Great Trial, A.D. 1242\u003cbr\u003e40. Merse and Kyle, A.D. 1264-66.\u003cbr\u003e41. Baron Courts of the Bruces, A.D. 1292\u003cbr\u003e42. By 1300\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART V. ENGLAND, 1300-1603: LAW AND CHIVALRY\u003cbr\u003eSection First - THE DUEL OF LAW\u003cbr\u003e43. Continued Decline after 1300\u003cbr\u003e4. The Prior of Tynemouth's Champion\u003cbr\u003e45. Magic, A.D. 1355\u003cbr\u003e46. The Last Approver's Duel, A.D. 1456\u003cbr\u003e47. An Elizabethan Scene, A.D. 1571\u003cbr\u003eSection Second-THE DUEL OF CHIVALRY\u003cbr\u003e48. A French Edict, A.D. 1306\u003cbr\u003e49. The Rise of Chivalry\u003cbr\u003e50. Precedents, A.D. 1350-52\u003cbr\u003e51. Transmarine Treason, A.D. 1380-84\u003cbr\u003e52. The Court of Chivalry\u003cbr\u003e53. In Chaucer\u003cbr\u003e54. A Contrast and Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e55. Richard II\u003cbr\u003e56. A Royal Jest, A.D. 1399\u003cbr\u003e57. Some Treason-Duels\u003cbr\u003e58. The end of Chivalry\u003cbr\u003e59. A Summary with an Exception\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART VI. SCOTLAND, 1300-1603: CHIVALRY\u003cbr\u003e60. Before Bannockburn\u003cbr\u003e61. Before Halidon Hill\u003cbr\u003e62. The Law and Custom in 1354\u003cbr\u003e63. Three half-told Stories, 1362-95\u003cbr\u003e64. Border Duels till 1396\u003cbr\u003e65. 'Vegetius' in Scotland\u003cbr\u003e66. 'The Maner of Battale'\u003cbr\u003e67. International Tilting\u003cbr\u003e68. A New Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e69. Precedents for the Inch of Perth\u003cbr\u003e70. Preliminaries - Inch of Perth\u003cbr\u003e71. The Inch of Perth, A.D. 1396\u003cbr\u003e72. Facts and Suppositions, 1398-1412\u003cbr\u003e73. On 'The Order of Combats'\u003cbr\u003e74. 'The Order of Combats'\u003cbr\u003e75. The Scottish Court of Chivalry\u003cbr\u003e76. Stray Duels, A.D. 1426-56\u003cbr\u003e77 In Parliament and Burgh Court\u003cbr\u003e78. Note on the Passing of Chivalry\u003cbr\u003e79. Pitscottie's Dutchman, A.D. 1500\u003cbr\u003e80. John Major's Homily\u003cbr\u003e81. Under James V\u003cbr\u003e82. Rise of Private Duels\u003cbr\u003e83. An Interlude, A. D. 1549.\u003cbr\u003e84. Two Historic Cartels\u003cbr\u003e85. The last Trial by Combat\u003cbr\u003e86. The Act of Parliament of 1600\u003cbr\u003e87. A Final Episode\u003cbr\u003e88. On the Borders\u003cbr\u003e89. Scottish Summary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART VII. BRITAIN, 1603-1819\u003cbr\u003e90. Last Words on Scotland\u003cbr\u003e91. England under James I\u003cbr\u003e92. England under Charles I\u003cbr\u003e93. Appeal of Murder Act, 1819\u003cbr\u003e94. 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