Legal History Miscellany

November 26, 2021 Sara M. Butler

Nobody Messes with Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester: Punishing the Violators of Sanctuary

October 10, 2021October 10, 2021 Krista Kesselring

The Court of Star Chamber’s Record(s) and Reports

September 26, 2021September 26, 2021 Cassie Watson

Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: ‘Acid’ Assault in the Twentieth Century

August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 Sara M. Butler

“Horys, strumppettes and fyssenagges”: Defamation in the Courts of Later Medieval England

August 14, 2021August 14, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

Mary Hockmore’s Lawyer: Marriage Breakdown and Women’s Rights in Seventeenth-Century England

July 12, 2021July 12, 2021 Krista Kesselring

Justice and (Mis)Fortune in the Wake of Wyatt’s Revolt

June 27, 2021June 27, 2021 Cassie Watson

Early Acid Throwing in the British Isles: The Insolence of Weavers

May 19, 2021 Sara M. Butler

Freedom comes at a Price: The Medieval History of Bail

April 20, 2021 Krista Kesselring

Domestic Violence and Rough Justice in Star Chamber (1612)

March 28, 2021March 29, 2021 Cassie Watson

Victorian Crime News: Evidence Which Cannot Err or Deceive?

February 17, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

Exits, Entries and the Allure of the Runaway Nun

February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 Sara M. Butler

Surviving an Execution in Medieval England and Modern Ohio: Miracle, or Incompetence?

January 19, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

Murder in Sanctuary: Liberty Jurisdictions and the Prosecution of Felony in Early Tudor England

January 1, 2021January 2, 2021 Krista Kesselring

A New Year’s Gift and the Power to Pardon

December 30, 2020December 31, 2020 Cassie Watson

Highway Robbery at Highbury: The Murder of PC Daly in 1842

November 25, 2020 Sara M. Butler

Trouble with the In-laws? Marriage and Murder in Thirteenth-Century England

October 11, 2020October 11, 2020 Krista Kesselring

Mary Vezey, Sarah Chapone, and the Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives (1732-35)

September 29, 2020September 30, 2020 Cassie Watson

Coventry’s Act and Malicious Injury

August 18, 2020August 19, 2020 Sara M. Butler

Law Enforcement Officials and the Limits of Violence in Medieval England

July 6, 2020July 11, 2020 Krista Kesselring

The Laws of Moses…and of England?

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020 Cassie Watson

Online Archives Unlocked: What’s in it for Crime Historians?

May 29, 2020June 10, 2020 Sara M. Butler

Carts, Ships, and Trains: Abusing the Deodand

May 18, 2020May 20, 2020 legalhistorymiscellany

The Ownership of Swans in English History: Does the Queen Own all the Swans?

April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 Krista Kesselring

Gaol Fever Stories

April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 Krista Kesselring

Can You Steal a Peacock? Animals in Early Modern Law

April 8, 2020April 9, 2020 legalhistorymiscellany

King Henry of Scotland’s Pardon of the Earl of Argyll, March 1566

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 Cassie Watson

Animal Victims of Crime

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 Sara M. Butler

Hearing and Speaking the Law in Medieval England

February 14, 2020February 17, 2020 legalhistorymiscellany

What’s Love Got to Do with It? Marriage in Late Medieval England and the Low Countries

January 6, 2020April 14, 2020 Krista Kesselring

Disparaging Marriage in Early Modern England

December 11, 2019December 11, 2019 Cassie Watson

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Star Chamber as a Marriage Court

October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 legalhistorymiscellany

Perjury, Wager of Law, and Debt in the Elizabethan Star Chamber

October 10, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Unsolved Early Modern Murder Mysteries

September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 Cassie Watson

Very Serious Pecuniary Loss and Inconvenience: A Jury’s Plea

August 15, 2019 Sara M. Butler

How to tell a Serf from a Slave in Medieval England

July 31, 2019August 1, 2019 Cassie Watson

The Long Arm of the Law Cut Short

June 30, 2019June 30, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Elizabethan Witch Trials: More Evidence (and a Map)

May 16, 2019June 28, 2019 Sara M. Butler

Could Priests Claim Sanctuary in Medieval England?

April 2, 2019April 2, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Apprehending Early Modern Fugitives

March 23, 2019March 23, 2019 Cassie Watson

Putting Faces to Names: Illustrated Crime Reports in the Late Victorian Press

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 Sara M. Butler

Femme Sole Status: A Failed Feminist Dream?

January 11, 2019May 1, 2019 Krista Kesselring

The Very Image of Justice? Star Chamber Records and the Art of Punishment

December 26, 2018December 26, 2018 Cassie Watson

Prosecuting Homicide on the Coroner’s Inquisition

November 9, 2018December 26, 2018 Sara M. Butler

“Woe unto those who know not how to syllabificate”: The Languages of Medieval Law

October 10, 2018October 14, 2018 Krista Kesselring

Slavery and Cartwright’s Case before Somerset

September 23, 2018September 25, 2018 Cassie Watson

Execution Delayed: Some Scottish Examples

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 legalhistorymiscellany

From Blue Lobsters to Friendly Giants: Visual Representations of the Police, c.1840–1880

August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 Sara M. Butler

A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England

July 2, 2018 Krista Kesselring

Mapping Durham’s Medieval Sanctuary Seekers

June 7, 2018June 17, 2018 Cassie Watson

Murder Confessions 1715–1900: A Preliminary Typology

May 3, 2018June 17, 2018 Sara M. Butler

Citizen v. John Foreigner: The Politics of Inclusion in Medieval England’s Urban Centers

April 5, 2018June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring

Star Chamber Stories: Using Criminal Law to Criminal Ends in Early Modern London

March 17, 2018June 17, 2018 Cassie Watson

In their own words? Criminal Depositions and the Voices of the Past

February 19, 2018June 17, 2018 Sara M. Butler

Persons under the Law? Medieval Animal Rights

February 14, 2018July 2, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Star Chamber Stories: Elizabethan Witchcraft, Sorcery, and a Very Troubled Marriage

January 12, 2018June 17, 2018 legalhistorymiscellany

Apostasy, Sanctuary, and Spin: The Canons of Waltham and Sanctuary at St. Martin le Grand, 1430

January 2, 2018October 20, 2018 Krista Kesselring

Star Chamber Stories: Felons’ Labours

December 19, 2017June 17, 2018 Cassie Watson

Thomas Scattergood: Forensic Toxicology in Victorian Yorkshire

November 21, 2017June 17, 2018 Sara M. Butler

Gunpowder, Peine forte et dure, and Medieval Penance

October 9, 2017October 10, 2017 Krista Kesselring

Impeaching the Queen of England (1643/4)

September 13, 2017December 16, 2017 Cassie Watson

Acid Attacks in Nineteenth-Century Britain

August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 Sara M. Butler

From Game of Thrones to Steven Pinker: Just how Lawless were the Middle Ages?

July 9, 2017July 9, 2017 Krista Kesselring

Early Modern Coroners’ Inquests into Deaths in Custody

June 11, 2017June 11, 2017 Cassie Watson

Mysterious Death: What Price the Medical Jurist?

May 19, 2017May 20, 2017 Sara M. Butler

Reading the Legal Record like a Physician

May 7, 2017May 7, 2017 legalhistorymiscellany

Treason in Shropshire in the Early Fifteenth Century: The Case of Sir Richard Lacon

April 30, 2017 legalhistorymiscellany

Evil May Day, 1517: Prosecuting Anti-Immigrant Rioters in Tudor London

April 14, 2017December 15, 2020 Krista Kesselring

Good Friday Pardons in England

March 25, 2017May 7, 2017 Cassie Watson

Doom for Demembring: Assault in Scots Law

March 16, 2017 legalhistorymiscellany

The Flames of Emergency

February 20, 2017February 20, 2017 Sara M. Butler

When did the Poor become Deserving or Undeserving?

January 10, 2017July 1, 2018 Krista Kesselring

A Proposal to Enslave Petty Offenders (1621)

December 21, 2016January 14, 2018 Cassie Watson

Oxford: Crime, Law and the University

November 17, 2016November 18, 2016 Sara M. Butler

Suffering Indifference: Pre-Reformation Approaches to Sacred People and Sacred Space

October 23, 2016February 19, 2021 Krista Kesselring

Licensed or Licentious? Divorce with Remarriage in Reformation England

September 27, 2016February 19, 2018 Cassie Watson

Dead Drunk or Just Deviant? Homicide and Alcohol in Wales, 1730-1914

August 22, 2016March 1, 2017 Sara M. Butler

Anti-Intellectualism and the Invisible Man

August 8, 2016June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring

The Short History of the Infidelity Defence in England

July 30, 2016January 14, 2018 Cassie Watson

Death’s Gatekeepers: The Victorian Coroner’s Officer