The Medieval Antecedents: Pre-Reformation Canon Law
(2024)
Book Chapter
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Legal Arguments and Citations in the 13th-Century Court of Canterbury (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law (2021)
Book
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
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.
Thomas Wolf c. Richard de Abingdon,1293-1295: A Case Study of Legal Argument (2019)
Journal Article
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.