Dissertatio, de probatione, quae fieri olim solebat per ignem et aquam; cum ferventem, tum frigidam

Step into a world where rivers judged the legitimacy of infants and boiling water determined the guilt of the accused. Fridericus Heinius deconstructs the 'diabolical instinct' behind trials by ordeal, tracing the evolution of justice from superstitious 'magic' to a profound philosophical inquiry into the nature of God.