Lingat; Robert (1892–1972); Thailand; Buddhist law; Ordeal; Oath; Three Seals Code
摘要
This article presents an English translation of a lecture on judicial ordeals in premodern Thailand delivered in French by Robert Lingat (1892–1972), arguably the most influential European scholar of Thai legal history. The introduction to the translation sketches a brief account of Lingat’s life and work, and situates several key questions raised by his lecture in relation to scholarship on Buddhist law and the comparative study of legal ritual. The annotated translation, which includes Lingat’s own translation from Thai of excerpts from an oath-text transmitted in the Three Seals Code and attributed to the year 1356 C.E., furnishes references and notes otherwise lacking in the lecture, which was originally published in Saigon by the French colonial journal Éducation (1949).
目次
Abstract 31 INTRODUCTION 31 TRANSLATION 39 Ordeals in Siam 39 Extracts from the Imprecation 53 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 56 BIBLIOGRAPHY 57
