Bibliography

One of the aims of this project is to employ the lens of multi-legalism and legal pluralism to the laws of (broadly) Western Europe in the period ca. 1050-ca. 1250.

Here is a bibliography of things that we find useful when thinking about legal pluralism.

  • Marc Galanter, ‘Justice in Many Rooms: Courts, Private Ordering, and Indigenous Law’, The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Law, 19 (1981), 1–47.

  • Ido Shahar, ‘Legal Pluralism and the Study of Shari’a Courts’, Islamic Law and Society, 15 (2008), 112–41.

  • Caroline Humfress, ‘Thinking through Legal Pluralism: “Forum shopping” in the Later Roman Empire’, in Law and Empire, ed. Jeroen Duindam, Jill Harries, Caroline Humfress, and Nimrod Hurvitz (Leiden, 2013), 225–50.

What we are reading

Jason Taliadoros

Thierry Sol, Droit subjectif our droit objectif? La notion de ius en droit sacramentaire au xiie siècle (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2017)

Helle Vogt

An 18th century argument for why a pact with the Devil not is legally valid, because it can’t be proved that the Devil has accepted the offer of getting the soul in return for earthly wealth, and hence the culprit can’t be judged according to the legislation about making a pact with the Devil

Danica Summerlin

R H Helmholz, The Profession of Ecclesiastical Lawyers: an Historical Introduction (Cambridge, 2019) + works of Mitra Sharafi and others on legal pluralism for a 3rd year UG lecture I’m writing…

Matt McHaffie

James C Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (New Haven, 2017): not legal and not medieval, but Scott is always stimulating.

Luc Guéraud, Contribution à l’étude du processus coutumier au Moyen Âge: le viage en Poitou (Clermont-Ferrand, 2008).