The origins of reasonable doubt : theological roots of the criminal trial - Whitman, James Q., 1957- (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007)
Of factual proof and moral comfort -- The Christian judge and the taint of blood : the theology of killing in war and law -- The decline of the judicial ordeal : from God as witness to man as witness -- Salvation for the judge, damnation for the witnesses : the continent -- Salvation for the judge, damnation for the jury : England -- The crises of the seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century : the rule emerges.
Keywords: Burden of proof -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Europe -- History; Evidence, Criminal -- Europe -- History; Judgments, Criminal -- Europe -- History; Religion and law -- Europe -- History