Explores the role of criminal intent in constituting felony in the first two centuries of the English criminal trial jury.

This book explores the role of mens rea, broadly defined as a factor in jury assessments of guilt and innocence from the early thirteenth through the fourteenth

This is the first book covering those who abused and misused the legal system in medieval England and the initial attempts of the Anglo-American legal system to

Contributions to this Festschrift for the renowned American legal and literary scholar William Ian Miller reflect the extraordinary intellectual range of the ho

The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England’s history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich fi