The Learned and Lived Law : Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue /

The Learned and Lived Law : Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue /

This wide-ranging collection of essays reflects the manifold scholarly interests of legal historian Charles Donahue, whose former students engage here with questions related to foundational Roman law concepts, the impact of the law on women and families in medieval and early modern Europe, the inter...

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Other Authors: Hatzimihail, Nikitas (Editor), Kamali, Elizabeth Papp (Editor), Lettmaier, Saskia (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2025.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Legal History Library ; 70.

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Conflict of laws (Roman law)
Law, Medieval.
Roman law.

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Call Number: KJA147

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Elizabeth Papp Kamali and Saskia Lettmaier
  • Part 1
  • Roman Law
  • 1 Towards a Taxonomy of Witnesses in Roman Law
  • James R. Townshend
  • 2 "Si Bononiensis": Glossators and the Conflicts of Law
  • Nikitas Hatzimihail
  • 3 Roman Property, Corporate Personhood, and the Politics of Natural Law in Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy: Venice, Baldus, and the res communes omnium
  • Charles Bartlett
  • 4 Abandonment, animus and animalia ferae naturae in Hugo Grotius' De iure belli ac pacis
  • Daniel Jacobs
  • 5 "For the Sake of Mental Health and Mutual Peace": The Transactio- Agreement in Early Modern Law and Theology
  • Wim Decock
  • Part 2
  • Women, Marriage, and the Law
  • 6 Consent in Medieval English Marriage and Misconduct
  • Elizabeth Papp Kamali
  • 7 Written Law and Practice: Realities for Women in Bas Languedoc in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
  • Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch
  • 8 Sex with Nuns in Medieval France
  • Sara McDougall
  • 9 Oikos and Oikonomika: The Early Modern Family as a Matrix of Modern Economics
  • John Witte
  • 10 Legal and Factual Uncertainty in a Seventeenth-Century French Marriage Case
  • Saskia Lettmaier
  • 11 Marriage Law between East and West: Charles Maigrot's Dissertatio de Matrimonio Sinarum
  • Stuart M. McManus
  • Part 3
  • Medieval and Early Modern Law
  • 12 Getting Ahead in a Twelfth-Century City: The Ambitious Monks of Saint-Clément, Metz
  • Samantha Kahn Herrick
  • 13 The Papal Constitution Execrabilis (1317) and Clerical Justices in the English Royal Courts
  • Ryan Rowberry
  • 14 Dangerous Dreams: Le Songe du Vergier and the Expulsion of Jews from Fourteenth-Century France
  • Rowan Dorin
  • 15 Suicide in Early Modern Italy
  • Elizabeth W. Mellyn
  • 16 The "Desire of Deeds": On Cherishing Medieval English Charters
  • Carol Symes
  • Part 4
  • American Legal History
  • 17 Lawyers and Their Book Collections: Notes from the Eighteenth Century
  • Sally E. Hadden
  • 18 The American Importation of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide: Francis Lieber's Failed Transplant and Its Early Twentieth-Century Resurgence
  • Amalia D. Kessler
  • Part 5
  • Literature and Legal Theory
  • 19 Faust: Goethe's Guide to Legal Progress
  • Anton Chaevitch
  • 20 Wesley Hohfeld's Modernist Imagination
  • Bharath Palle
  • Appendix: Reflections from Former Students
  • Appendix 1 When Giants Roamed: A Reflection
  • Thomas S. Burns
  • Appendix 2 De magistro eruditissimo et beneficentissimo: A Reflection
  • Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas
  • Appendix 3 The Teachings of Charles Donahue on the Middle Ages from the Perspective of a Student of Mexican Legal History: A Reflection
  • William Suárez-Potts
  • Appendix 4 Chi Squares, Chant, and Charlie: A Reflection
  • Claire Valente
  • Bibliography
  • Index.