Laws, lawyers and texts : : studies in medieval legal history in honour of Paul Brand / / edited by Susanne Jenks, Jonathan Rose and Christopher Whittick.

• Superior document: Medieval law and its practice ; v. 13
• TeilnehmendeR: Brand, Paul; Jenks, Susanne.; Rose, Jonathan, 1938-; Whittick, Christopher.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Law and Its Practice 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The essays in this volume in honour of Paul Brand, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, match his career and interests in the world of legal history as well as medieval social and economic history and textual studies. The topics explored include the Angevin reforms, legal literature, the legal profession and judiciary, land law, the relation between the crown and the Jews, the interaction of the Common Law with Canon and Civil Law, as well as procedural and testamentary procedures, the management of both ecclesiastical and lay estates and the afterlife of medieval learning. Like Brand’s own work, all the essays are grounded on detailed studies of primary sources. The result is a high quality scholarly book that will be of interest and use to medieval scholars, students and non-specialists with wide-ranging and varied interests. Contributors include Sir John H. Baker*, David Carpenter, David Crook, Charles Donahue, Jr, Barbara Harvey, Richard H. Helmholz, John Hudson, Paul Hyams, David J. Ibbetson, Susanne Jenks, Janet S. Loengard, Alexandra Nicol, Bruce R. O'Brien, Robert C. Palmer, Sandra Raban, Jonathan Rose, Henry Summerson and Sarah Tullis. *Professor Jon Baker is the winner of the American Society for Legal History’s 2013 Sutherland Prize. The prize, which is awarded annually, is for the best article on English legal history published in the previous year. The Prize was awarded to John baker for his article “Deeds Speak Louder Than Words: Covenants and the Law of Proof, 1290-1321\' in Laws, Lawyers and Texts: Studies in Medieval Legal History in Honour of Paul Brand, edition Susanne Jenks, Jonathan Rose and Christopher Whittick (2012). For more information about the Prize see: http://aslh.net/about-aslh/honors-awards-and-fellowships/sutherland-prize/

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Constitutions of Clarendon, Clause 3, and Henry II’s Reforms of Law and Administration / John Hudson -- Notes on the Transformation of the Fief into the Common Law Tenure in Fee / Paul R. Hyams -- An English Book of Laws from the Time of Glanvill / Bruce O’Brien -- Annuities and Annual Pensions / Richard H. Helmholz -- Civilian and Canonist Influence on the Writ of Cessavit per Biennium / David Ibbetson -- Burning Issues: The Law and Crime of Arson in England, 1200–1350 / Henry Summerson -- Crucifixion and Conversion: King Henry III and the Jews in 1255 / David Carpenter -- Robert of Lexington, Senior Justice of the Bench, 1236–1244 / David Crook -- Deeds Speak Louder Than Words: Covenants and the Law of Proof, 1290–1321 / John Baker -- Lawyers Retained by Peterborough Abbey in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries / Sandra Raban -- The Legal Professions of Fourteenth-Century England: Serjeants of the Common Bench and Advocates of the Court of Arches / Charles Donahue -- Writs De Minis and Supplicavit: The History of Surety of the Peace / Susanne Jenks -- Common Law and Custom: Windows, Light, and Privacy in Late Medieval England / Janet S. Loengard -- Medieval Estate Planning: The Wills and Testamentary Trials of Sir John Fastolf / Jonathan Rose -- Glanvill after Glanvill: The Afterlife of a Medieval Legal Treatise / Sarah Tullis -- The Construction of an Online Digital Archive: The Anglo-American Legal Tradition Website Project / Robert C. Palmer -- Bibliography of the Published Works of Paul Brand / Alexandra Nicol -- Index (by Carrie Smith).