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John M. Kelly Library Research Guides

Medieval Studies

This guide lists the key brief sources--both online and in print--for students of the Middle Ages.

Law & Government

Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature.
Edited by Candace Barrington and Sebastian Sobecki.
Cambridge UP, 2019.
Oxford Handbook of European Legal History.
Edited by Heikki PihlajamÃ¨aki, Markus D. Dubber, and Mark Godfrey.
Oxford UP, 2018.

A Cultural History of Law in the Middle Ages.
Edited by Emanuele Conte.
Zed Books, Bloomsbury, 2021.
A History of Law in Europe: From the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.
By Antonio Padoa-Schioppa.
Cambridge UP, 2017.
Law and Politics in the Middle Ages: An Introduction to the Sources of Medieval Political Ideas.
By Walter Ullmann.
Cambridge UP, 1976.
Law and Language in the Middle Ages.
Edited by Jenny Benham, Matthew McHaffie and Helle Vogt.
Brill, 2018.
Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages.
Edited by Wendy J. Turner & Sara M. Butler.
Brill, 2014.
Law Book Culture in the Middle Ages.
Edited by Thom Gobbitt.
Brill, 2021.
Realms of Ritual: Burgundian Ceremony and Civic Life in Late Medieval Ghent.
By Peter Arnade.
Cornell UP, 2018.
The Formation of the English Common Law: Law and Society in England from King Alfred to Magna Carta.
By John Hudson.
2nd ed. Routledge, 2017.
Episcopal Power and Local Society in Medieval Europe, 1000-1400.
Edited by Peter Coss, Christopher Dennis, Melissa Julian-Jones, and Angelo Silvestri.
Brepols, 2017.
Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages: The Frankish Leges in the Carolingian Period.
By Thomas Faulkner.
Cambridge UP, 2016.
Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation.
By Bruce C. Brasington.
Brill, 2016.
Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300.
By Susan Reynolds.
2nd ed. Clarendon Press, 1997.
Medieval Government: The World of Kings and Warriors.
Translated by Samuel Parsons Scott . Edited by Robert I. Burns S.J.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
A Cultural History of Democracy in the Medieval Age.
Edited by Dallas G. Denery.
Bloomsbury, 2022.
Boundaries of the Law: Geography, Gender and Jurisdiction in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Edited by Anthony Musson.
Routledge, 2017.

Vengeance in Medieval Europe: A Reader.
Edited by Daniel Lord Smail and Kelly Gibson.
University of Toronto Press, 2009.
The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader.
Edited by Eugene Smelyansky.
University of Toronto Press, 2020.
Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe.
Edited by Cameron Hunt McNabb.
Punctum Books, 2020.

Medieval International Law.
By Ignacio De La Rasilla Del Moral.
Oxford Bibliographies - International Law
Oxford UP, 2014.
Canon Law.
By Edward Peters and Melodie H. Eichbauer.
Oxford Bibliographies - Medieval Studies
Oxford UP, 2018.
English Kings and Monarchy, 1066-1485.
By Douglas Biggs.
Oxford Bibliographies - Medieval Studies
Oxford UP, 2013.

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