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A new guest post by Helen Rutherford: 'Mapping Death: The Atlas of Victorian Coroners' Districts'
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Mapping Death: The Atlas of Victorian Coroners’ Districts

In this guest post, Helen Rutherford explores what a unique atlas of Victorian coroners’ districts might tell us about technologies of knowledge and death investigation.

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December 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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New post by @sarabutler.bsky.social: 'Bracton and the History of Emotions': legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/11/30/i...

Bracton and the History of Emotions

Posted by Sara M. Butler, 30 November 2025. Even though medievalist Barbara Rosenwein was among the first group of English-language historians to embrace emotion as an analytical construct, medieva…

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November 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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TODAY (2/4)!!!! 6:15pm: panel on STAGING WITCHCRAFT w/brilliant Rivka Galchen, Sarah (Sally) Barringer Gordon, Julie Crawford, Denise Cruz (+ me)! Live @ Columbia U or Zoom. Link to open-access copy of my mini-book + video abstract in 1st comment below. Register here! sofheyman.org/events/celeb...

Celebrating Recent Work by Julie Stone Peters | Event

Staging Witchcraft Before the Law: Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials by Julie Stone Peters While the judicial…

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February 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM

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I contributed the “Felony” entry to this! Lots of amazing contributors in this volume.

Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Jan 19

if your institution subscribes to Elgar Online, you now have access to the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elg... ; just go to www.elgaronline.com/saml/wayf?ta... ; @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social

Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature

‘This is an extraordinary book. It does much to refresh and revive law and literature as a field of inquiry. It does so by focusing on legal and cultural problems and bringing to bear the resources of...

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January 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, edited by Robert Spoo, Princeton University and Simon Stern, University of Toronto

Over 130 entries by established and emerging scholars

FREE Entry: Abolition by Jess A. Goldberg doi.org/10.4337/9781...

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The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature surveys the intersection between two important fields of study. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume showcases the many ways in which literary and legal methods and insights both converge and remain distinct.

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January 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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Anglo-American Legal Tradition

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An exciting new tool: Chris Phillips of medievalgenealogy.org.uk has created a searchable database of select AALT CP40 plea rolls (1349-1596), based on WAALT indexes compiled by Vance Mead and Rosemary Simons. You can search its nearly 700K entries here: www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/aalt/cp40_se...

Court of Common Pleas plea rolls (CP 40): Search (index order)

A search facility for abstracts of Court of Common Pleas plea rolls (CP 40).

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November 21, 2024 at 11:20 PM

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My entry for “sanctuary / sanctuary-city” appears in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, which features timely content from top legal humanities talent. Published this month and available below. #sanctuary @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
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Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature

‘This is an extraordinary book. It does much to refresh and revive law and literature as a field of inquiry. It does so by focusing on legal and cultural problems and bringing to bear the resources of...

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January 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM