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"All the authorities on the subject, I believe, are collected in this excellent book." Sir Frederick Pollock, The Genius of the Common Law
Although 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.
CONTENTS
PART I. PRELIMINARY: EUROPE
1. Before the Middle Ages
2. King Gundobald, A.D. 501
3. Mode of Battle
4. Among the Norsemen
5. The Church
6. Decadence and Extinction
PART II. ORIGIN IN BRITAIN
7. A Question Stated
8. Norse Evidence
9. English and Scotch Evidence
10. The Question Answered
PART III. ENGLAND, 1066-1300: LAW
11. Legal Outline
12. Sketch of Procedure
13. The Duel in Finance
14. The Approver
15. The Champion
16. Some Churchmen's Champions
17. Another Champion's Contract
18. Three Early Duels, A.D. 1096-1163
19. A Hibernian Hero
20. Charters and Charter Stories
21. An Incident, A.D. 1267
22. Reactionary Signs
23. Review and Prospect
PART IV. SCOTLAND TILL 1300: LAW
24. In Early Scotland
25. Under David the First
26. Under William the Lion
27. Writ of Right
28. The Battle
29. An Argument
30. Exemptions from Duel
31. Regiam Majestâtem
32. In the Regiam
33. Crime in the Regiam
34. Under Alexander II and after
35. The Duel Described
36. March Law
37. 'The Lawis of Merchis,' A.D. 1249
38. Recorded Duels from 1155
39. A Great Trial, A.D. 1242
40. Merse and Kyle, A.D. 1264-66.
41. Baron Courts of the Bruces, A.D. 1292
42. By 1300
PART V. ENGLAND, 1300-1603: LAW AND CHIVALRY Section First - THE DUEL OF LAW
43. Continued Decline after 1300
4. The Prior of Tynemouth's Champion
45. Magic, A.D. 1355
46. The Last Approver's Duel, A.D. 1456
47. An Elizabethan Scene, A.D. 1571
Section Second-THE DUEL OF CHIVALRY
48. A French Edict, A.D. 1306
49. The Rise of Chivalry
50. Precedents, A.D. 1350-52
51. Transmarine Treason, A.D. 1380-84
52. The Court of Chivalry
53. In Chaucer
54. A Contrast and Conclusion
55. Richard II
56. A Royal Jest, A.D. 1399
57. Some Treason-Duels
58. The end of Chivalry
59. A Summary with an Exception
PART VI. SCOTLAND, 1300-1603: CHIVALRY
60. Before Bannockburn
61. Before Halidon Hill
62. The Law and Custom in 1354
63. Three half-told Stories, 1362-95
64. Border Duels till 1396
65. 'Vegetius' in Scotland
66. 'The Maner of Battale'
67. International Tilting
68. A New Conclusion
69. Precedents for the Inch of Perth
70. Preliminaries - Inch of Perth
71. The Inch of Perth, A.D. 1396
72. Facts and Suppositions, 1398-1412
73. On 'The Order of Combats'
74. 'The Order of Combats'
75. The Scottish Court of Chivalry
76. Stray Duels, A.D. 1426-56
77 In Parliament and Burgh Court
78. Note on the Passing of Chivalry
79. Pitscottie's Dutchman, A.D. 1500
80. John Major's Homily
81. Under James V
82. Rise of Private Duels
83. An Interlude, A. D. 1549.
84. Two Historic Cartels
85. The last Trial by Combat
86. The Act of Parliament of 1600
87. A Final Episode
88. On the Borders
89. Scottish Summary
PART VII. BRITAIN, 1603-1819
90. Last Words on Scotland
91. England under James I
92. England under Charles I
93. Appeal of Murder Act, 1819
94. The End
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John Mulvihill
reviewed Trial By Combat on December 20, 2017
Trial By Combat
Read this book to be disturbed. The author is a seasoned war correspondent who's been in the thick of warfare from El Salvador and Guatemala to Iraq and Bosnia. It is an anti-war treatise by a man who admits being addicted to war.
Hedges describes that he is "hooked" on the narcotic of war, on the rush that it gives. It's a world where power is all that matters. The meek do not inherit the Earth; they are murdered, and then often mutilated. The book is a philosophical inquiry into What War Is. It feels like it gives meaning to the lives of the men fighting it, he says, but it does so by playing to our most animal instincts, and by obscuring and numbing all that make our regular lives joyful. And by destroying individualism, turning people into objects, and life into a myth.
I read the book with a yellow highlighter in one hand, to mark the passages that really stuck with me. One:
"The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living. . . . It gives us resolve, a cause. It allows us to be noble." (page 3)
Another:
"Most of those who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. . . . Wars that lose their mythic stature for the public, such as Korea or Vietnam, are doomed to failure, for war is exposed for what it is - organized murder." (page 21)
Here is a description of what war does to us: Our minds, our culture, our love of our fellow man. It makes us lie to ourselves and to each other. The book was published in 2002, after the 9/11 attacks, and just on the eve of America's invasion of Iraq. It describes how a culture can censor itself into believing a great cause and squash the speech of any who disagree (e.g., Scott Ritter, or The Dixie Chicks). Another quote:
"By destroying authentic culture - that which allows us to question and examine ourselves and our society - the state erodes the moral fabric. It is replaced with a warped version of reality. The enemy is dehumanized; the universe starkly divided between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. . . . Cultural or national symbols that do not support the crusade are often ruthlessly removed." (page 63)
Genocide, ethnic cleansing, mutilation, the killing of innocents; it is all the side of war unseen to those supporting it. The war is enabled by myth, and the myth is a lie. The lie is captivating and grabs us all. Every nation feels like it is fighting the ultimate evil, and they have no choice but to defeat it. The war will only end when the lie has collapsed under overwhelming evidence - hard-fought, over a long time. All that is left when the lie disappears is guilt, and shame, and the holes in people's lives where loved ones used to be. And the anger of the victims: The seeds of the next war.
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