Anthony Musson

Chantal Stebbings

The first book to address the way that the broad and inclusive subject of legal history is researched and written.

Approaches and Methodologies

Making Legal History

Nigel Ramsay

A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the most important legal institutions of the Middle Ages.

Courts of Chivalry and Admiralty in Late Medieval Europe

Law, Politics and Society in the Fourteenth Century

The Evolution of English Justice

Gwilym Dodd

Helen Lacey

This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod’s wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on governance and political resistance, culture, religion and identity.

Essays in Memory of W. Mark Ormrod

People, Power and Identity in the Late Middle Ages

Serge Dauchy

Georges Martyn

Heikki Pihlajamäki

Alain Wijffels

This volume surveys 150 law books of fundamental importance in the history of Western legal literature and culture. The entries are organized in three sections: the first dealing with the transitional period of fifteenth-century editions of medieval authorities, the second spanning the early modern period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and the third focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors are scholars from all over the world. Each ‘old book’ is analyzed by a recognized specialist in the specific field of interest. Individual entries give a short biography of the author and discuss the significance of the works in the time and setting of their publication, and in their broader influence on the development of law worldwide. Introductory essays explore the development of Western legal traditions, especially the influence of the English common law, and of Roman and canon law on legal writers, and the borrowings and interaction between them. The book goes beyond the study of institutions and traditions of individual countries to chart a broader perspective on the transmission of legal concepts across legal, political, and geographical boundaries. Examining the branches of this genealogical tree of books makes clear their pervasive influence on modern legal systems, including attempts at rationalizing custom or creating new hybrid systems by transplanting Western legal concepts into other jurisdictions.

Anthony Musson

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