This book portrays the great variety of work that medieval English juries carried out while highlighting the dramatic increase in demands for jury service that

Law mattered in later medieval England and Ireland. A quick glance at the sources suggests as much. From the charter to the will to the court roll, the majority

England has traditionally been understood as a latecomer to the use of forensic medicine in death investigation, lagging nearly two-hundred years behind other E

Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence.

Providing a new narrative of how local authority and social structures adapted in response to the decline of lordship and the process of state formation, Spike