Translated from Danish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / P. Andersen -- Introduction / P. Andersen -- Chapter One. Medieval Denmark / P. Andersen -- Chapter Two. The Tradition-And The New Paradigm / P. Andersen -- Chapter Three. Learned Law And Secular Legislation / P. Andersen -- Chapter Four. The Danish Provincial Laws / P. Andersen -- Chapter Five. The Institutions Of Legal Administration / P. Andersen -- Chapter Six. Legal Procedure In The Provincial Laws / P. Andersen -- Conclusion Part One. Procedural Law In The Thirteenth Century / P. Andersen -- Chapter Seven. Learned Tendencies And Practical Considerations / P. Andersen -- Chapter Eight. Practice And Regulation At The Herredsting / P. Andersen -- Chapter Nine. Landstinget-Between The People And The King / P. Andersen -- Chapter Ten. Birkeret, Ting And Local Procedure / P. Andersen -- Chapter Eleven. The Borough-Continuity And Consequence / P. Andersen -- Chapter Twelve. The Royal Court Of Law-The Highest Court / P. Andersen -- Conclusion Part Two. Law And Practice In The Late Middle Ages / P. Andersen -- General Conclusion / P. Andersen -- Bibliography / P. Andersen -- Subject Index / P. Andersen.

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This book offers a comprehensive examination of how the Fourth Lateran Council’s prohibition against trial by ordeal was implemented in Danish secular law and how it required both a fundamental restructuring of legal procedure and an entirely different approach to jurisprudence in practice. It offers a broader understanding of how ideology could penetrate and change jurisprudence firstly by changing the norms, secondly by presupposing new kind of legal institutions. Rather than focusing on pure dogmatics, this investigation will focus on uncovering the ideological character of procedure with regard to how those learned in law and those holding political power thought that jurisprudence needed to be constructed in order to ensure that justice was done in medieval Denmark.