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September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

When Women Went to Court: Gendered Agency in European Legal Systems, 1300-1800

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

Decriminalizing Heresy

August 9, 2022August 9, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

Women’s Executions in Early Modern England

June 6, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

Christened Cockerels and Heretical Hill-Diggers: Treasure Trove in Medieval England

March 13, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

Gaol and Gaol-breaking in Early Modern Ireland

August 14, 2021August 14, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

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

February 17, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

Exits, Entries and the Allure of the Runaway Nun

January 19, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

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

May 18, 2020May 20, 2020 legalhistorymiscellany

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

April 8, 2020April 9, 2020 legalhistorymiscellany

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

February 14, 2020February 17, 2020 legalhistorymiscellany

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

October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 legalhistorymiscellany

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

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 legalhistorymiscellany

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

January 12, 2018June 17, 2018 legalhistorymiscellany

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

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

March 16, 2017 legalhistorymiscellany

The Flames of Emergency

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