Meghan Woolley and I are editing a collection titled Emotions, Law, and Performance in England c.500-1500. Check out the CFP and get in touch if you're interested in contributing: legalhistorymiscellany.com/call-for-paper…

Postdoctoral Fellowships at Penn 2025-6 at the Wolf Humanities Center, on theme of “Truth”… Apply! wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellowships/an…

BOOK: Valentin JEUTNER, The Reasonable Person. A Legal Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), ISBN 9781009445627 ift.tt/orbTDlK

From my wonderful colleague, @migrantherstory !

One final plug: applications for this fully funded legal history PhD at UCL Faculty of Laws and The National Archives closes on 24 June Supervised by me and @TheGozfather Details below: jobs.ac.uk/job/DHI516/ahr…

Cécile Vidal, #Caribbean New Orleans: #Empire, #Race, and the Making of a #Slave Society Williamsburg/Chapel Hill, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press, 2019. A Review by Miranda Spieler cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, invites applications for the 2025-2028 fellowship competition. Due August 6, 2024! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

CFP: XII International Symposium on Byzantine and Medieval Studies "Days of Justinian I", Skopje, November 1–3 , 2024. Submissions due August 10, 2024 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/xii-days-… via Mary Jaharis Center

Alas, the nonsense cycle has returned to pseudoscientific assertions about comparative DNA & pseudohistorical debates about Jews & Khazars. On the former: Steve Weitzman, The Origin of the Jews: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac… On the latter: Shaul Stampfer: muse.jhu.edu/article/547127…

First Notre Dame, now Rouen 😢 theguardian.com/world/article/…

Listen to Tom McSweeney talk about Bracton!

Fascinating

The marriage contract of Margaret of Scotland and King Erik II of Norway, 1281. The contract was copied at both ends of one piece of parchment. The Scottish end has been cut jaggedly but could be matched with the version retained in Norway to prove its authenticity, if required.

Thank you, Liz Papp Kamali for this truly thoughtful, comprehensive and generous review of my book, Vernacular Law! I wish every author such an insightful and gracious reader:

Delighted the awesome Ted McCormick is joining us soon! Montreal always stays in one’s heart, but ah the easier winters…

At the Battle of Evesham in 1265, Simon de Montfort was dismembered, his head, testicles, hands & feet made trophies. This is the ghastly tale of the Evesham dark trophies, & -from St Oswald of Northumbria to military culture in the Anglo-Welsh borders- its weirder explanation:

Publication – John Eldevik, « Reading Prester John. Cultural Fantasy and its Manuscript Contexts » rmblf.be/2024/08/30/pub…

The brilliant Marcy Norton !

in Law & Lit 36:3: my article on "Locating the Reasonable Man"- problems with the personification tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… DM me if paywalled Law & Literature Canadian Network of Law & Humanities Law&HumanitiesAssas Christine Corcos Bristol Centre for Law and History Research Law and History Network LawCultureHumanities Yale Law Library The Long Nineteenth-Century Network

New Episode!!! 🚨 Emilia Mataix-Ferrándiz talks to Prof. Clifford Ando about Roman legal sources and a new project of his. Links below: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2x1pXN…