trial by combat

method of settling accusations within Germanic law by dueling
Thing general Q788874
trial by combat
Jörg Breu der Jüngere (died 1547), Paulus Hector Mair (died 1579) · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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trial by combat

Summary

trial by combat ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (357 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • trial by combat's image is recorded as Gerichtskampf mair.jpg[2].
  • trial by combat's image is recorded as Gerichtlicher Zweikampf.jpg[3].
  • trial by combat's image is recorded as Ms.Thott.290.2º 080r.jpg[4].
  • trial by combat's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85144522[5].
  • trial by combat's subclass of is recorded as trial[6].
  • trial by combat's Commons category is recorded as Trial by combat[7].
  • trial by combat's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 77535[8].
  • trial by combat's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01m7nk[9].
  • trial by combat's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Trials by combat[10].
  • trial by combat's Iconclass notation is recorded as 44G174[11].
  • trial by combat's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12].
  • trial by combat's BBC Things ID is recorded as b1f8a0f5-e73b-43b1-9cf8-8a41e0af17ad[13].
  • trial by combat's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as trials-by-combat[14].
  • trial by combat's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007546372705171[15].
  • trial by combat's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as xzsr8334[16].
  • trial by combat's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/d554edf7-a9c9-41ed-a9b0-8702dc0035e9[17].

Why It Matters

trial by combat ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (357 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  4. [5] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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