Further reading

The history of medieval law and the medieval laws is something which is growing and changing, as all history does, in the light of new interpretations, new evidence, and creative ideas. Fundamental to that drive for change, though, are the various projects that are functioning across the different laws in the central Middle Ages, and the institutions that support those projects.

All history is fundamentally collaborative: the links below represent a fraction of the people who are doing great work on legal history, but they are a starting place for some of the ideas that we’re engaging with.

Medieval Law

The Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249-1424: History, law and charters in a recreated kingdom

Civil Law, Common Law, Customary Law: Consonance, Divergence and Transformation in Western Europe from the late eleventh to the thirteenth centuries

The Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law

The Clavis Canonum at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica

Otto Vervaart’s Rechtsgeschiedenis blog

Voices of Law project

Early English Laws project

Legal History more generally

The Legal History Blog