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8 Feb 2017, 8:48 am
I stayed there a long time. [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 2:00 pm
One of our favorites is a Sheriff’s Magna Carta – a single-sheet copy of the statute which was read aloud in a town square four times a year. [read post]
3 Sep 2012, 8:00 am
The strategies of heirship varied in time and place. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 10:13 am
Just southwest of Glastonbury, Beckery is a small island located in the Avalon Marshes, one of the largest lowland wetlands in England. [read post]
18 Oct 2013, 4:42 pm
This medieval notion (the contours of which were contested even in medieval times) is a misleading metaphor for the idea of legal limits on the state’s power over religious bodies. [read post]
14 May 2021, 9:30 pm
Self-nominations are welcome.Charlotte Whatley (PhD candidate, UW-Madison) has won the 20th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies Paper Prize for "Bending Time and Building Authority in the Late Medieval English Common Law. [read post]
30 May 2023, 6:30 am
The shift to French initially occurred mostly in the context of texts on counting and pleading, the oral parts of court procedure, which were conducted in French, and one author of the 1280s even suggested that by his time a norm had developed that texts on counting and pleading should be written in French. [read post]
19 Nov 2016, 9:54 pm
At the time, the Church considered frequent and mandatory holidays the key to keeping a working population from revolting. [read post]
23 Oct 2011, 4:35 am
He said it was done in medieval times in Italian city-states where every male citizen was subject to being drafted to sit on the city council. [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 8:30 am
These theories often shed light on legal behavior in former times, including contracts between slave ship owners and captains, and the suit and settlement decisions of medieval private prosecutors. [read post]
28 Aug 2019, 11:38 am
The concept of the author has certainly changed over time, and taken different forms in different places at different times. [read post]
28 Aug 2019, 11:38 am
The concept of the author has certainly changed over time, and taken different forms in different places at different times. [read post]
27 Sep 2007, 3:16 pm
It’s “Red Mass,” a tradition begun in medieval times and resurrected in the U.S. in 1928. [read post]
19 Jul 2008, 5:05 pm
One of my hobbies is historical recreation; one of my interests is running a bardic circle at which I try to create the illusion of a group of people sitting around a fire entertaining each other at some indefinite time and place in the medieval period. [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 11:49 am
We start with the Twelve Tables of the Roman law, go through classical Roman law, Germanic law, feudal law, the medieval rediscovery of the Roman law, classical [read post]
26 Aug 2022, 2:00 am
David Merriman (Illinois-Chicago; Google Scholar), Michael Disher (Illinois-Chicago), Francis Choi (Illinois-Chicago) & Xiaoyan Hu (Illinois-Chicago), The Earth Isn't Flat, and Neither is Illinois' — Or Any Other State's — Income Tax: In her book, Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea, Christine Garwood explains that from medieval times, long... [read post]
19 Jul 2007, 12:41 pm
Medieval theologians reportedly spent a lot of time debating whether Adam had a navel. [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 6:27 pm
PARIS — On chilly winter mornings, most Parisians hurry by the now-locked square that is home to the beautiful medieval Tour St. [read post]
7 Aug 2018, 9:30 pm
Wills and testamentary practice are given special attention, while the volume also discusses the timing of the legal acts, suggesting that while some people made careful and timely arrangements, others only reacted to sudden events. [read post]
16 Nov 2016, 12:45 pm
Call for Papers Litigating Women: Negotiating Justice in Courts of Law c.1100-c.1750 As part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice’, and in conjunction with Swansea University’s annual ‘Symposium by the Sea’, we are pleased to announce... [read post]
