Be powerful knight

>be powerful knight
>murder and rape your way across the countryside
>get arrested
>demand trial by combat
>win
>repeat
why the fuck was trial by combat even a thing?

german autism, literally

>get murdered in sleep by nameless peasant
>demand boiling pebble
>calloused hands help you grab pebble and heal with minimal epidermal damage
The real question is why didn't they genocide all the poor people?

Cringe

literally because western europe was shit re: law and order
read some of the firsthand accounts of the locals shock at "frankish" legal proceedings from the crusades
western european law during the middle ages was nowhere near as grounded than in the ME or Eastern Mediterranean- which is part of what gave them an ideological advantage during (and post) the renaissance- they had less to do away with with the rise of new systems of thought re: government

There is literally nothing wrong with this, might is right.

It wasn't really a widespread thing and was banned in 1200s by the church.

Trial by Combat was a G*rmanic thing.

I read an interesting take somewhere that trial by combat/trial by fire was more effective than people think. People who knew they were guilty would confess, because they believed God would not favor them, and people who were innocent would accept the trial because they believed God would protect them. Thus, or so the idea was, only the innocent would go through with the trial. The trail was then secretly rigged so the accused would 'win' and everyone would be happy. It was a pretty awkward system (and easily gamed if you knew how to do it), but its not too far fetched considering the importance of religion back then.

Trial by Ordeal is basically witchcraft and the very antithesis of Christianity. That's why the church was strongly against it.

>AWAY WITH YOU VILE BEGGAR

Not really related to the question but knights tended to own their own land and the whole pillaging thing would probably be reserved to enemies or sperging out on certain occasions for various reasons.

this. was it romanticism or retardism that makes everyone think the medieval period was a fantasy where everyone thinks with retard logic and act like it was the world turned upside down? is this the power of modernity?

There were rules and accomodations to trial by combat. It was after all a legal proceding meant to settle who was in the right and as such needed to be based on fairness.
You didn't actually think that someone used to the martial way of life just had a get-out-of-jail-freecard did you?

>Rhodok
>Cavarly

Deserves death only.

Because if you win, that means you're favoured by god. So therefore you must be innocent.

t. Jared diamond

>knight

nobles, and no it wasnt a thing
only in certain cunts and only in the case of BOTH parties present but with no witnesses other than themselfs

in other words, read a book underage shitter

The church wasn't strongly against it though? It only fell out of use in the late middle ages, and there are tons of canonized saints who took part in trials by ordeal and passed them as proof of their holiness?

It was outright banned by the church and then only made a comeback during the occultist, witchcrafty 17-18th century.

lol diamond blows and that’s not hos argument
not everyone who acknowledges that western, atlantic europe wasn’t the height of developed civilization during the middle ages is jared diamond

t. Jared diamond