Laws, Lawyers and Texts
Studies in Medieval Legal History in Honour of Paul Brand
Edited by Susanne Jenks, Jonathan Rose and Christopher Whittick
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Biographical note
Susanne Jenks read History, English and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. She is an independent scholar who has published on late medieval English Law in English and German and is vice-adminstrator of the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Project.
Jonathan Rose is Emeritus Professor of Law and Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1960) and his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School (1963). His scholarship involves the history of the legal profession, the medieval English legal system, and the historiography of legal history.
Christopher Whittick read law at Worcester College, Oxford, qualified as an archivist in 1975 and joined the staff of the East Sussex Record Office, where he is Senior Archivist. He teaches palaeography on the University College London archives course. He has a particular interest in medieval crime and administration, and in the application of archival sources to the study of standing buildings and topography.
Jonathan Rose is Emeritus Professor of Law and Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1960) and his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School (1963). His scholarship involves the history of the legal profession, the medieval English legal system, and the historiography of legal history.
Christopher Whittick read law at Worcester College, Oxford, qualified as an archivist in 1975 and joined the staff of the East Sussex Record Office, where he is Senior Archivist. He teaches palaeography on the University College London archives course. He has a particular interest in medieval crime and administration, and in the application of archival sources to the study of standing buildings and topography.
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Those interested in the legal, economic, social and political aspects of the medieval period, including specialists in the those fields, graduate and postgraduate students and educated non-specialists, as well as academic and public libraries.
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