Ben Woodring
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Ben Woodring
@benwoodring.bsky.social
Lawyer; scholar of Renaissance literature and sanctuary
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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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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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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…
sofheyman.org
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.
January 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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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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January 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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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).
www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk
November 21, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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
www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elg...
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...
www.e-elgar.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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