A ground-breaking study of the lawbooks which were created in the changing social and political climate of post-conquest Wales.

The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages.

The state is the most powerful and contested of political ideas, loved for its promise of order but hated for its threat of coercion. In this broad-ranging new

Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages takes a detailed view on the role of manuscripts and the written word in legal cultures, spanning the medieval period ac