The origins of reasonable doubt : theological roots of the criminal trial / James Q. Whitman.

Author: Whitman, James Q., 1957-

Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

Descriptionix, 276 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:Of factual proof and moral comfort -- The Christian judge and the taint of blood : the theology of killing in war and law -- The decline of the judicial ordeal : from God as witness to man as witness -- Salvation for the judge, damnation for the witnesses : the continent -- Salvation for the judge, damnation for the jury : England -- The crises of the seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century : the rule emerges.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-269) and index.

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