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Christo auspice: Impetrato consensu amplissimi ordinis facultatis Iuridicae, in inclyta Academia Basiliensi, pro solenni gradu in utroque Iure consequendo, has propositas assertiones de Testibus defendet Caspar Niess Tremonianus : Disputabuntur XVII. Aprilis, hora septima matutina
How do you separate truth from a witness who is trembling or blushing on the stand? Caspar Niess examines the rigorous, often brutal standards of 16th-century courtroom evidence. Read this to see how early modern jurists weaponized credibility against the threat of perjury.