In 1510, nine men were tried in the Archbishops Court in York for attempting to find and extract a treasure on the moor near Mixindale through necromantic magic.
Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or pederasty in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners recounted their own sexual histories. Curated and translated into English here, these remarkable documents allow us to hear the voices of men who desired men and to explore complex questions ......
In this book, Jeffrey Merrick brings together a rich array of primary-source documents-many of which are published or translated here for the first time-that depict in detail the policing of same-sex populations in eighteenth-century France and the ways in which Parisians regarded what they called sodomy or pederasty and tribadism. Taken together, ......
This comprehensive work from original sources answers the need for an evidence-based social history of ancient Rome for the 21st century. It provides hundreds of inscriptions, graffiti, curse tablets, official records and letters both private and official, all translated and with commentaries placing them into a social and historical context.
The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist
Huguccio was an important lawyer of the medieval church, bishop of Ferrara, and one of the greatest representatives of twelfth-century scholasticism. In this book-length study of this influential figure, Wolfgang P. Mueller provides a critical account of the biographical information on the man and his writings. He discusses the various aspects of ......
This is a sociolegal study of the role of the Roman familia in legal and commercial transactions in classical times. The Roman "family" included slaves and freedmen as well as wives, children and relatives and it served as the basis for a considerable type of legal and quasi-legal activities. In this study, socio-economic data shed light on the ......
Gratian has long been called the father of Canon Law. This latest volume in the ongoing ""History of Medieval Canon Law"" series covers the period from Gratian's initial teaching of canon law during the 1120s to just before the promulgation of the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX in 1234.Gratian's contributions to the birth of canon law and European ......
Studies in Medieval Legal History Dedicated to Stephen Kuttner
Essays concerned with various aspects of medieval law. Dedicated to Stephan Kuttner, they are aimed at anyone interested in medieval canon law, its effects on medieval society, the study and use of Roman law in the Middle Ages, and the interaction of these two laws.
