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How the medieval right to appoint a parson helped give birth to English common law Appointing a parson to the local church following a vacancy--an "advowson"--w

A primer on medieval justice, this book focuses on France, Germany and England and covers the thousand years between the transformation of the Roman world in We

This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth

A collection of original essays on the relationship between property and power in early medieval Europe.

This is the first book covering those who abused and misused the legal system in medieval England and the initial attempts of the Anglo-American legal system to