Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue 

Texts and Contexts in Legal History:  Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue (Berkeley, CA: Robbins Collection, 2016) (with Sara McDougall and Anna di Robilant)

Description

Renowned legal historian, Charles Donahue, serves as the inspiration for this volume of essays covering a range of topics of interest to legal historians, legal scholars, and others. Inspired by Donahue's insights into the value of understanding both text and context, this volume brings together 26 contributions from leading historians in Europe and North America.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword – Martha L. Minow 
  • Foreword – Morris S. Arnold
  • Editorial Preface  
  • Vita of Professor Charles Donahue, Jr.
  • About the Contributors and Editors  
  1. Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem: Autobiographical and Methodological Reflections – Charles Donahue
  2. Regulating Incestuous Marriage in the Roman Republic – Bruce W. Frier
  3. Property Talk in Old English: Did Anglo-Saxon England know the Concept of Seisin? – Paul Hyams
  4. “Death, Where Is Thy Sting?”: Locating Capital Punishment in Early Medieval Debates – Abigail Firey
  5. Pope Pascal II's Council of Benevento in 1113 – Robert Somerville
  6. Forgery and Pope Alexander III's Decretal on Scripta Authentica – Robert Berkhofer III
  7. Written Agreements and Civil Wars:  The Catalan and Anglo-Norman Examples – Adam J. Kosto
  8. Glanvill and the Development of the English Advowson Writs – Joshua C. Tate
  9. “Tempering the Wind”: Moderation and Discretion in Late Twelfth-Century Papal Decretals – Anne J. Duggan
  10. Texts and Parisian Context of the Licentia Docendi at the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century – Anne Lefebvre-Teillard
  11. The Fourth Lateran Council, its Legislation, and the Development of Legal Procedure – Ken Pennington
  12.  Law and Empowerment at the Fourth Lateran Council – Joseph Goering
  13. Bertrandus and Guido de Baysio: Commenting on the Decretum Gratiani between 1234 and 1300 – Peter Landau
  14. The Secular Consequences of Annulment of Marriage for Precontract in England c. 1300 – Paul Brand 
  15.  Chapter 29 of Magna Carta in the Fourteenth Century – John H. Baker
  16.  Law and Equity in a Medieval English Manor Court – Elizabeth Kamali
  17. Custom and Law in the Medieval Court Records of the Province of Canterbury – R. H. Helmholz 
  18.  Interdict at Lynn, Norfolk: Canon Law Anomalies – F. Donald Logan
  19. Canon Law in the Arctic: A Marriage Case in the Register of Bishop Jon of Hólar – Anders Winroth
  20. When Lawyers Lie: Forging an English Constitution in 1399 – David J. Seipp
  21. The Murder of Mistress Lacey’s Maid: Ad Hockery and the Law in England circa 1530 – Shannon McSheffrey 
  22.  The Admiralty Jurisdiction of the Court of Requests – Emily Kadens
  23. Quantitative Easing Four Centuries Ago: Juan de Mariana's De monetae mutatione (1609) – Wim Decock 
  24. The Mystery of the "Charitable Arbitrator," or Reflections on a Neglected Old Regime Text and the Intersection Between Status and Practices of Arbitration and Mediation – Amalia D. Kessler 
  25.  Lights Hidden Under Bushel's Case – Thomas A. Green
  26. The Relevance of Colonial Appeals to the Privy Council – Mary Sarah Bilder
  27. Prosecuting Polygamy in Early Modern England – John Witte, Jr.