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01794nam a22002657a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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ZW-GwMSU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20240301075405.0 |
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| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER |
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| International Standard Serial Number |
00222186 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
MSU |
| Language of cataloging |
English |
| Transcribing agency |
MSU |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
HB73 JOU |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Leeson, Peter T. |
| Relator term |
author |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Ordeals |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
by Peter T. Leeson |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Chicago |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
University of Chicago Press |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2012 |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Source |
rdacontent |
| Content type term |
text |
| Content type code |
txt |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Source |
rdamedia |
| Media type term |
unmediated |
| Media type code |
n |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Source |
rdacarrier |
| Carrier type term |
volume |
| Carrier type code |
nc |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| Title |
Journal of law and economics |
| Volume/sequential designation |
Volume 55, number 3 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
I argue that medieval judicial ordeals accurately assigned accused criminals’ guilt and innocence. They did this by leveraging a medieval superstition called iudicium Dei (judgments of God). According to that superstition, God condemned the guilty and exonerated the innocent through clergy-conducted physical tests. Medieval citizens’ belief in iudicium Dei created a separating equilibrium in which only innocent defendants were willing to undergo ordeals. Conditional on observing a defendant’s willingness to do so, the administering priest knew he or she was innocent and manipulated the ordeal to find this. My theory explains the peculiar puzzle of ordeals: trials of fire and water that should have condemned most persons who underwent them did the reverse. They exonerated these persons instead. Boiling water rarely boiled persons who plunged their arms in it. Burning iron rarely burned persons who carried it. Ordeal outcomes were miraculous, but they were miracles of mechanism design |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Christianity |
| General subdivision |
Criminals |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Eternal condemnation |
| General subdivision |
Guilt |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Innocence |
| General subdivision |
Legal innocence |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://doi.org/10.1086/664010 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Journal Article |