SJLahey, 1 day ago to Law

#TFW you’re overcome by the sheer horror of c.16 of the 1st Statute of Westminster (3 Edw 1) 😳. #MedievalManuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Law
@bookhistodons @medievodons

SJLahey, 6 days ago to bookhistodons

A golden initial like a tiny #sun in one of Cambridge University Library’s medieval English statute books. 🌞 #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw
@bookhistodons @histodons

SJLahey, 12 days ago to Women

Lovely portrait of a woman tucked away in a Statuta Angliæ manuscript from Cambridge University Library. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Women #Art
@bookhistodons @histodons

SJLahey, 14 days ago to Law

‘M’ for the Merry Month of May in a Cambridge University Library statute book. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Law
@bookhistodons @histodons

SJLahey, 5 months ago to bookhistodons

As Cambridge University Library’s 2nd ever Oschinsky Research Associate, I was thrilled to spend today working with one of the same #MedievalManuscripts that Dorothea Oschinsky researched! #FanGirling 😃 Thank you, Gonville & Caius College Library! #LegalHistory
@bookhistodons @medievodons

Detail of a page in a modern, printed book: page 460 in Dorothea Oschinsky’s Walter of Henley and Other Treatises on Estate Management and Accounting, published by Oxford’s Clarendon Press in 1971. The image shows two paragraphs of Latin text transcribed from a medieval manuscript: page 379 in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, manuscript 205.111.

SJLahey, 5 months ago to Law

Spent today looking at #MedievalManuscripts in St John’s College (Cambridge) Library’s Rare Books Reading Room—a wonderful space (📷 1: St John’s Chapel). This manuscript (📷 2) belongs to a group I discussed in my uOttawa MA thesis (sup.: Andrew Taylor); how amazing to see it in person. #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #Law #RareBooks #Manuscripts
@bookhistodons @medievodons

Photo of a detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 53 recto in Cambridge, St John’s College, manuscript A.7. 21 lines of French copied in black ink, in a precise, spiky hand, with the first 14 lines indented to accommodate an enormous decorative initial ‘E’ for ‘Edward’ (for this is England’s King Edward II). The letter is rendered in blue and white atop a black-painted square densely packed with fine, scrolling filigree vines in gold. At centre, superimposed atop the letter, is a painting of a king, his long brown hair and beard just beginning to grey beneath his golden crown. Clad in a pink, ermine-trimmed cloak over a vermilion robe, he sits enthroned—golden sceptre in one hand, golden orb in the other—gazing at the adjacent text with an expression of deep suspicion. Can the scribes be trusted? Only time will tell.

michaelmeckler, 6 months ago to cymru

Online lecture on medieval Welsh law TOMORROW:

My friend Robin Chapman Stacey, professor emerita at the University of Washington, is giving an online lecture at 17:00 GMT (= 12 noon ET, 9 am PT), sponsored by the Welsh Department at Aberystwyth, on ‘Thinking in pairs: law and language in medieval Wales’.

Lecture is free but you need to register, which can be done here: https://adran-y-gymraeg.eventcube.io/events/53963/seminar-robin-chapman-stacey/

@histodons

#medieval #Wales #Welsh #LegalHistory #cymraeg #CelticStudies

SJLahey, 6 months ago to Law

‘S’ is for ‘shiny’ in this Cambridge University Library Statuta Angliæ manuscript. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #HistLaw #LegalHistory #Law
@bookhistodons @medievodons

SJLahey, 7 months ago to Law

Itty-bitty book from Cambridge University Library’s Special Collections 🥺. #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts #HistLaw #LegalHistory #Law #Cute (Yes, really.)

@bookhistodons @medievodons

BHO, 7 months ago to london

A genuine 'strange law':
This is why a bale of hay is dangling below the Millennium Bridge in London
https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/17/this-is-why-a-bale-of-hay-is-dangling-below-the-millennium-bridge-in-london-19680311/
(Bylaw can be found on p31 of https://pla.co.uk/assets/1090thamesbyelaws.pdf )
#LegalHistory #RiverHistory #London

SJLahey, 8 months ago to bookhistodons

A 1201 charter of Hubert de Burgh—then Chamberlain to King John, later Chief Justiciar—bearing “the only known complete seal [from] his early career” ( https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/11170 ). Now held by my alma mater, University of Victoria.
#MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #Charterrific
@bookhistodons @medievodons

brainwane, 9 months ago to Law

Minor mystery re: US legal history:

I came across this 1989 pamphlet summarizing US Immigration law. The "PROBLEMS" list has 33 reasons the US might deny visitors/immigrants or require certain permits/visas/authorizations.

#24 is marked "[Repealed]". What was it, and when did Congress repeal it?

https://catalog.gpo.gov/F?func=find-b&find_code=WTI&local_base=GPO01PUB&request=immigration+laws+general+information+ lists the editions of this pamphlet; I think to read them I have to hit up a FDLD.

https://ask.gpo.gov/s/FDLD

#law #LegalHistory #histodons #USLaw #immigration #ImmigrationLaw

Details within pages 10-11 of the pamphlet, including: PROBLEMS The following are reasons you cannot be allowed into the United States. You are required to tell a consular officer or immigration officer if any of these reasons apply to you: 1. You are mentally retarded. 2. You are insane. 3. You have ever been insane. 4. You are mentally ill or homosexual. 5. You are a drug addict or alcoholic. 6. You have a dangerous, contagious disease. (TB, leprosy, syphilis, HIV, AIDS) 7. You are an intending immigrant and you have a disease or medical problem which would prevent you from earning a living. 8. You are a beggar. 9. You have been convicted of a serious crime or have ever committed a serious crime. 10. You have been convicted of two or more crimes and were jailed for or more years. ..... 23. You are a drug trafficker or have been convicted of possession of drugs or marijuana. 24. [Repealed] 25. You are coming as an immigrant and cannot read or write some language. .....
[end of the "Problems" list:] 31. You have helped aliens enter the United States illegally. 32. You are a graduate of a medical school and are coming as an immigrant to practice medicine. 33. You were a Nazi and helped persecute people. Many reasons listed above can be overcome to allow for your admission, either as an immigrant or nonimmigrant. You should contact an immigration office or American Consulate to inquire about waivers and other authorizations for admission.

karawswanson, 10 months ago to maps

Cool book alert! & the ebook is openaccess! Isabella Alexander (UnivTechSydney) on #cartography & #copyright #LegalHistory #histodons #IP #IPHistory #maps #empire
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/copyright-and-cartography-9781509958337/

gewam, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to Podcast German

Neue Folge des #Podcast Jüdische Geschichte Kompakt:

Die #DDR und der Jerusalemer #EichmannProzess
Annette Leo & Katharina Rauschenberger (@FritzBauerInstitut) im Gespräch mit Anna-Dorothea Ludewig & Lutz Fiedler (beide #MMZPotsdam )

#histodons #Zeitgeschichte #LegalHistory #GDR #AdolfEichmann #Israel #ContemporaryHistory #Holocaust #Vergangenheitspolitik #Geschichtspolitik
@histodons @historikerinnen @jewishstudies

▶️ https://juedischegeschichtekompakt.podigee.io/46-die-ddr-und-der-jerusalmer-eichmann-prozess

kawulf, 11 months ago to history

Good morning, #histodons! What are you looking at today? Lots on my desk this morning but I've got this 1790 Isaiah Thomas (Worcester, MA) edition of Blackstone's commentaries on my mind. #bookhistory #legalhistory #amwriting #preppingtowrite #history #VastEarlyAmerica

SJLahey, 11 months ago to Germany

Legal #garden in a copy of the Schwabenspiegel (‘Mirror of the Swabians’), a collection of national and feudal laws from Southern #Germany, #Bohemia, and parts of #Switzerland (📷: Fribourg, 1410). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #Law
@bookhistodons @medievodons

cgoodhistorian, 11 months ago to legal

So pleased to see NPR feature the work of my brilliant friend & grad school classmate Justin Simard, who is uncovering how courts continue to cite property cases about enslaved people as good law. #histodons #law #slavery #legalhistory
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/14/1181834798/slave-cases-precedent-us-legal-system

SJLahey, 11 months ago to medievodons

TFW you’re forced to sell your ride, and the buyer lowballs you so bad that even your ride is offended (England, 14th century). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #LawBooks #Law #Critters #MedievalAnimals
@bookhistodons @medievodons

SJLahey, 11 months ago to bookhistodons

Tiny surprise tucked away in a Register of Writs: a portrait of a lawyer (the coif gives him away). (England, c.1310?). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #Law
@bookhistodons @medievodons

SJLahey, 1 year ago to medievodons

A (much-faded) fragment of a Corpus Iuris Civilis (France, c.1250–1300) rescued from a binding, and now held by the University of Victoria. #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Fragmentology
@bookhistodons @medievodons

sandbergrlaw, 1 year ago to random

‘A Historical Introduction to English Law: Genesis of the Common Law’, my new textbook from Cambridge University Press for new law students, is out soon.

Get 20% off with code SANDBERG23: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/law/legal-history/historical-introduction-english-law-genesis-common-law?format=PB

Read the prologue and see full contents at: https://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/90583/frontmatter/9781107090583_frontmatter.pdf

#law #university #students #legalhistory #legaleducation #anglosaxon #norman #normans #magnacarta #plantagenet #plantagenets #blackdeath #tudor #tudors #stuart #stuarts #civilwar