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The document discusses how oaths were used in medieval Western Europe and how Christianity influenced their use and enforcement. It examines how oaths functioned generally and how Christian religion and secular law qualified oaths and punished perjury. It also analyzes how general oaths of fidelity helped establish legitimacy for post-Roman kings and addressed both Roman and barbarian subjects through concepts of loyalty to God and the ruler.
- Author
- Vratislav Zervan
- Language
- EN