Laws, Lawyers and Texts: Studies in Medieval Legal History in Honour of Paul Brand

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The essays in this volume in honour of Paul Brand, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, match his career and interests in the world of legal history as well as medieval social and economic history and textual studies. The topics explored include the Angevin reforms, legal literature, the legal profession and judiciary, land law, the relation between the crown and the Jews, the interaction of the Common Law with Canon and Civil Law, as well as procedural and testamentary procedures, the management of both ecclesiastical and lay estates and the afterlife of medieval learning. Like Brand’s own work, all the essays are grounded on detailed studies of primary sources. The result is a high quality scholarly book that will be of interest and use to medieval scholars, students and non-specialists with wide-ranging and varied interests.

Contributors include Sir John H. Baker*, David Carpenter, David Crook, Charles Donahue, Jr, Barbara Harvey, Richard H. Helmholz, John Hudson, Paul Hyams, David J. Ibbetson, Susanne Jenks, Janet S. Loengard, Alexandra Nicol, Bruce R. O'Brien, Robert C. Palmer, Sandra Raban, Jonathan Rose, Henry Summerson and Sarah Tullis.

*Professor Jon Baker is the winner of the American Society for Legal History’s 2013 Sutherland Prize. The prize, which is awarded annually, is for the best article on English legal history published in the previous year. The Prize was awarded to John baker for his article "Deeds Speak Louder Than Words: Covenants and the Law of Proof, 1290-1321" in Laws, Lawyers and Texts: Studies in Medieval Legal History in Honour of Paul Brand, ed. Susanne Jenks, Jonathan Rose and Christopher Whittick (2012). For more information about the Prize see: aslh.net/about-aslh/honors-awards-and-fellowships/sutherland-prize/.
The essays in this volume in honour of Paul Brand, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, match his career and interests in the world of legal history as well as medieval social and economic history and textual studies. The topics explored include the Angevin reforms, legal literatu...

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Susanne Jenks read History, English and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. She is an independent scholar who has published on late medieval English Law in English and German and is vice-adminstrator of the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Project.
Jonathan Rose is Emeritus Professor of Law and Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1960) and his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School (1963). His scholarship involves the history of the legal profession, the medieval English legal system, and the historiography of legal history.
Christopher Whittick read law at Worcester College, Oxford, qualified as an archivist in 1975 and joined the staff of the East Sussex Record Office, where he is Senior Archivist. He teaches palaeography on the University College London archives course. He has a particular interest in medieval crime and administration, and in the application of archival sources to the study of standing buildings and topography.
Susanne Jenks read History, English and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. She is an independent scholar who has published on late medieval English Law in English and German and is vice-adminstrator of the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Project. Jonathan Rose is Emeritus Professor of La...

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