- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anglo-Saxon England
- English History 1066–1272
- English Political History of the Late Middle Ages, 1272–c. 1520
- European History
- Ecclesiastical History
- Economic History
- Legal History
- Byzantine Scholarship: Twelfth-Century Constantinople, Twentieth-Century Britain
- Celtic Studies
- Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
- Slavonic Studies
- Chinese and Japanese Studies
- Language
- Latin
- Old English
- Middle English Literature
- German Studies
- Romance Studies 1: Francophone Studies
- Romance Studies 2: Hispanic Literatures
- Romance Studies 3: Dante
- Artefacts, Sites and Landscapes: Archaeology and Medieval Studies
- Numismatics
- History of Science and Medicine
- Cartography
- Medieval Thought
- Musicology
- The Study of Medieval Art I: 1900–50
- The Study of Medieval Art 2: 1950–2000
- Metrics
- The History of the Book
- Epilogue
- Index of Scholars
- Subject Index
Legal History
Legal History
- Chapter:
- (p.180) (p.181) Legal History
- Source:
- A Century of British Medieval Studies
- Author(s):
Paul Brand
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter examines twentieth-century British scholarship on medieval English legal history. Legal history has long been a marginal subject within British academic life, falling somewhat clumsily between the two stools of law and history, although it is an essential part of both subjects. There were very few English medieval legal historians at work during the twentieth century and this is unlikely to change for the better in the future.
Keywords: English legal history, British scholarship, academic life, law, legal historians, medieval history
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anglo-Saxon England
- English History 1066–1272
- English Political History of the Late Middle Ages, 1272–c. 1520
- European History
- Ecclesiastical History
- Economic History
- Legal History
- Byzantine Scholarship: Twelfth-Century Constantinople, Twentieth-Century Britain
- Celtic Studies
- Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
- Slavonic Studies
- Chinese and Japanese Studies
- Language
- Latin
- Old English
- Middle English Literature
- German Studies
- Romance Studies 1: Francophone Studies
- Romance Studies 2: Hispanic Literatures
- Romance Studies 3: Dante
- Artefacts, Sites and Landscapes: Archaeology and Medieval Studies
- Numismatics
- History of Science and Medicine
- Cartography
- Medieval Thought
- Musicology
- The Study of Medieval Art I: 1900–50
- The Study of Medieval Art 2: 1950–2000
- Metrics
- The History of the Book
- Epilogue
- Index of Scholars
- Subject Index