medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Jessalynn Bird writes:
> from 1130 onwards, participants in tournaments were considered
>excommunicated, >and those who died from wounds sustained from
>participation in them were >theoretically to be denied Christian burial.
I didn't know this.
If one had participated in a tournament and survived, how would one return
to the good graces of Mother Church?
At what point (legal or chronological) did this shade into the acceptable
trial by combat? Or is trial by combat a Victorian accretion?
Pat
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