TREATISES ON LEGAL HISTORY

Title: "For Freedom Alone" : The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320
Author: Cowan
Volumes: 1
Notes: Cowan explores the history, words and legacy of this important medieval document, seen by many as a model for the American Declaration of Independence. The history and facts around the Arbroath document parallel the American example.
Publisher: Tuckwell Press
Location: DA783.41 .C68 2003
 
Title: Custom. The Development and Use of a Legal Concept in the Middle Ages
Author: Per Anderson & Mia Munster-Swendsen (eds.)
Publisher: DJOF Publishing
Location: KJ 135 2008
 
Title: From Memory to Written Record, England 1066-1307
Author: Clanchy
Volumes: 1
Notes: Classic book - tracks the development of the written record during this period. Though not directly related to law, it does explore the proliferation, preservation, technology and use of written documents.
Publisher: Blackwell
Location: DA176 .C54 1993
 
Title: Jury, State, and Society in Medieval England
Author: Masschaele
Volumes: 1
Notes: This book is a thorough exploration of the medieval English jury system. In particular, Masschaele argues demand for more jurors and juries aided state formation through increasing interaction.
Publisher: Blackwell
Location: KD7540 .M37 2008
 
Title: Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe
Author: Karras, Kaye & Matter (editors)
Volumes: 1
Notes: This collection of essays explores how medieval institutions and culture were affected by and affected medieval law. Examples include: impact on Christian theology, sin, honor, gender relations, scholasticism, universities and others.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvannia Press
Location: KJC147 .L38 2008
 
Title: Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages
Author: Donahue
Volumes: 1
Notes: A monumental study on marriage and family structure in the middle-ages. Donahue delves into screeds of original documents to flesh out the legal and social human interest. Long, but worthwhile.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Location: KJC1100 .D66 2007
 
Title: Legal Culture in the Early Medieval West : Law as Text, Image and Experience
Author: Wormald
Volumes: 1
Notes: Wormald explores post-Roman West law-codes, arguing that the values of sub-Roman society were at odds with the images cultivated in these texts. Legal history is about the history of the elite and popular culture.
Publisher: Hambledon Press
Location: KD554 .W67 1999
 
Title: Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages. Frankish Formulae, c. 500-1000
Author: Alice Rio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Location: KJ 320.R56
 
Title: Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State
Author: Alan Harding
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Location: KJ147.H37 2002
 
Title: Medieval Law in Context : The Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt
Author: Musson
Volumes: 1
Notes: The judicial developments of 13th and 14th centuries England affected all aspects of society. Musson explores the impact of law, justice and politics on all facets of society with these developments in mind.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Location: KD6857 .M87 2001
 
Title: The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England : Felony Before the Courts from Edward I to the Sixteenth Century
Author: Bellamy
Volumes: 1
Notes: This is a full length study on the English criminal trial from 1300 to 1500. The author uses primary material to reconstruct the medieval criminal trial. Every aspect is explored.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Location: KD8220 .B45 1998
 
Title: The English Judiciary in the Age of Glanvill and Bracton, c. 1176-1239
Author: Turner
Volumes: 1
Notes: The professional English judiciary’s evolution is studied by following the careers of certain royal justices. This critical period saw authorship of Glanvill and Bracton, and the growth of a professional civil service.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Location: JD632 .T87 2008
 
Title: The Evolution of English Justice : Law, Politics, and Society in the Fourteenth Century
Author: Musson & Ormrod
Volumes: 1
Notes: The authors explore the pressures of war on fourteenth century English justice. For the authors, the medieval judicial system survived these crises (contrary to the majority view) and developed mechanisms from within to cope.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Location: KD610 .M87 1999
 
Title: The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession : Canonists, Civilians, and Courts
Author: Brundage
Volumes: 1
Notes: This is a sweeping and in-depth history of the medieval and roman origins of the legal profession. The author covers areas such as: teaching of law, new sources of law, emergence of formal courts, development of Romano-canonical procedure.
Publisher: University of a Chicago Press
Location: KJ147 .B78 2008