Outputs (7)

Legacies and Legalities: Bequests of Land to Ecclesiastical Institutions in England c. 1180-1300 (2024)
Journal Article
White, S. (in press). Legacies and Legalities: Bequests of Land to Ecclesiastical Institutions in England c. 1180-1300. Law and History Review, 1-37

In English testamentary history, there is a clear divide between Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman testamentary practice, with the primary difference being that in the latter case, heritable land could not be bequeathed. Once the transfer of land required... Read More about Legacies and Legalities: Bequests of Land to Ecclesiastical Institutions in England c. 1180-1300.

Legal Arguments and Citations in the 13th-Century Court of Canterbury (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
White, S. (2016, July). Legal Arguments and Citations in the 13th-Century Court of Canterbury. Presented at Fifteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Paris, France

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law (2021)
Book
Eves, W., Hudson, J., Ivarsen, I., & White, S. B. (2021). Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law. Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955195

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The... Read More about Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law.

The Procedure and Practice of Witness Testimony in English Ecclesiastical Courts, c.1193–1300 (2020)
Journal Article
White, S. B. (2020). The Procedure and Practice of Witness Testimony in English Ecclesiastical Courts, c.1193–1300. Studies in Church History, 56, 114-130. https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2019.7

In the twelfth century, the English church courts made considerable use of compurgation and of sworn members of the community to aid in the resolution of disputes, but by the end of the thirteenth century, academic canon law depended almost entirely... Read More about The Procedure and Practice of Witness Testimony in English Ecclesiastical Courts, c.1193–1300.

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2019), Pp. 336, GBP 90.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-108-49879-1 (2020)
Journal Article
White, S. B. (2020). Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2019), Pp. 336, GBP 90.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-108-49879-1. American Journal of Legal History, 60(2), 247-249. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajlh/njaa007

Thomas Wolf c. Richard de Abingdon,1293-1295: A Case Study of Legal Argument (2019)
Journal Article
White, S. B. (2020). Thomas Wolf c. Richard de Abingdon,1293-1295: A Case Study of Legal Argument. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 71(1), 40-58. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046919001155

This essay examines the legal arguments in Wolf c. Abingdon, a tithes dispute from 1293-5 between the rector and the vicar of Aldington, Kent. The case records contain explicit citations to written law, a surprising find in a seemingly minor case. Th... Read More about Thomas Wolf c. Richard de Abingdon,1293-1295: A Case Study of Legal Argument.

Bruce C. Brasington, Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation (Leiden: Brill, 2016). Pp. xxviii, 329. Hardback €140. ISBN: 978-9-0042-1434-7 (2017)
Journal Article
White, S. B. (2017). Bruce C. Brasington, Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation (Leiden: Brill, 2016). Pp. xxviii, 329. Hardback €140. ISBN: 978-9-0042-1434-7. The Mediaeval Journal, 7(1), 176-179. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.TMJ.5.115354