July 10, 2014
Peter Leeson Interviewed at Freakonomics Radio about Trials by Ordeal
Peter Leeson
Senior Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
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To speak with a scholar or learn more on this topic, visit our contact page.In this Freakonomics Radio podcast, Peter Leeson discusses his research ("Ordeals") on how medieval trials by ordeal worked, and why it is that the majority of criminal suspects who were forced to grab a hot bar of iron were somehow not burned.
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