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The Medieval Antecedents: Pre-Reformation Canon Law (2024)
Book Chapter
White, S. B. (2024). The Medieval Antecedents: Pre-Reformation Canon Law. In The Legal History of the Church of England: From the Reformation to the Present (5-26). Oxford: Hart Publishing

Legal Arguments and Citations in the 13th-Century Court of Canterbury (2023)
Conference Proceeding
White, S. (2023). Legal Arguments and Citations in the 13th-Century Court of Canterbury. In F. Demoulin-Auzary, N. Laurent-Bonne, & F. Roumy (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law: Paris, 17-23 July 2016 (585-600)

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, United Kingdom: 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.