How Long to Read The Ordeal

How Long Does it Take to Read The Ordeal?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 50 minutes to read The Ordeal by Henry Charles Lea

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Henry Charles Lea was one of the first American historians to use what would later be termed comparative and anthropological approaches to history. Under his pen, the study of the medieval ordeal becomes a study in cultural history. Reprinted here from the fourth revised edition of 1892, the book begins by tracing the role of the ordeal in non-Western and ancient societies, showing the mental world to which it belongs: a limited trust in the public order and purely human methods of inquiry, and a larger faith in divine intervention and immanent justice. The work then describes the uses of the institution through the European Middle Ages to its final abolition, and in the process offers a rich typology of ordeals. Additional documents included in this edition present formulas and descriptions of some of the ordeals most frequently used: the ordeal by boiling water, by hot water, by cold water, by hot iron and water, by glowing plowshares, by fire, and the ordeal of the cross.

How long is The Ordeal?

The Ordeal by Henry Charles Lea is 230 pages long, and a total of 57,500 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Ordeal Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 14 minutes to read The Ordeal aloud.

What Reading Level is The Ordeal?

The Ordeal is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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