onclusions

1. The ordeal disappeared as a mode of proof in Southern Europe long before the 4th Lateran Council

2. The procedure of the Ordo iudiciarius arose from practice not from legislative mandates

3. The IV Lateran Council confirmed the norms and practices of the ecclesiastical courts

4. Innocent III did not draft the IV Lateran canons

5. Innocent III intended that the canons circulate as a separate canonical collection

6. Innocent's Agenda at the IV Lateran differed from the Agenda Modern historians have given him.