Law, Custom, and the Social Fabric in Medieval Europe

Bernard S. Bachrach is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota, cofounding editor of Medieval Prosopography and founding editor of Res Mitiraris. David Nicholas is professor emeritus of History at Clemson University who has published widely on Flanders and urban centers in the late medieval period.

• AcknowledgmentsBryce Lyon: An AppreciationBibliography of the Major Works of Bryce LyonAbbreviationsEditors and ContributorsMaking Sense of Incest: Women and the Marriage Rules of the Early Middle Ages by David HerlihyThe "Agricultural Revolution" of the Middle Ages Reconsidered by Adriaan VerhulstFulk Nerra's Exploitation of the facultates monachorum, ca. 1000 by Bernard S. BachrachThe Death of the Subdean: Ecclesiastical Order and Disorder in Eleventh-Century Francia by Edward PetersBernard of Clairvaux and the Temple of Solomon by Thomas RennaGalbert of Bruges on Serfdom, Prosecution of Crime, and Constitutionalism (1127-28) by R.C. Van CaenegemThe Role of Feudal Relationships in the Consolidation of Power in the Principalities of the Low Countries, 1000-1300 by Karen S. NicholasThe Viceregal Court of Henry I by C. Warren HollisterDivided Loyalties: The Neville Family and the Barons' War against King Henry III, 1264-65 by Charles R. YoungMarriage Legislation and Patrician Society in Fifteenth-Century Venice by Stanley ChojnackiThe Venetian Family and the Estimo of 1379 by Donald E. QuellerReassessing the Career of Olivier de Clisson, Constable of France by John Bell HennemanThe Governance of Fourteenth-Century Ghent: The Theory and Practice of Public Administration by David NicholasViolence against Women in a Medieval Metropolis: Paris around 1400 by Walter Prevenier"To Die a Criminal for the Public Good": The Execution Ritual in Late Medieval Paris by Esther Cohen