A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William Shakespeare’s London home for the first time. https://cnn.it/4ceRkkT
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Lawyer; scholar of Renaissance literature and sanctuary
A new guest post by Helen Rutherford: 'Mapping Death: The Atlas of Victorian Coroners' Districts' legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/12/11/m...
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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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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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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I contributed the “Felony” entry to this! Lots of amazing contributors in this volume.
SSimon Stern@simon8.bsky.social · 2y ago
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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... Out now: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
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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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...
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SSimon Stern@simon8.bsky.social · 2y ago
so many amazing contributors to this book: @jessagoldberg.bsky.social @visconsi.bsky.social @zahrsaid.bsky.social @nomideplume.bsky.social @lisaaht.bsky.social @elisewang.bsky.social @rtushnet.bsky.social @nissaren.bsky.social @rosecasey.bsky.social @lsiraganian.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social
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just out: The Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Literature www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elg... you can read the Introduction here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (with ToC) @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @juliestonepeters.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @slsauk.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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Cruel Mercy? Coronation Pardons, Clemency, and Constraints
As we approach the U.S. Inauguration and the promised Day 1 pardons to people who tried to thwart the last transition, this post looks back at English coronation pardons: what did they do and why d…
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