Law, Governance, and Justice

Richard W. Kaeuper, Ph.D. (1967), Princeton University, is Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He has published monographs, articles and book reviews on Western Europe between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries and more specifically focus on both sides of the Channel, including War, Justice and Public Order (1988), Chivalry and Violence (1999), A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry (2005) and Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry (2009).

• Preface ... viiList of Contributors ... ixDebating Law, Justice and Constitutionalism ... 1*Richard W. KaeuperThe Anglo-Saxon Origins of English Constitutionalism ... 15*James CampbellOrality and Literacy in the Age of the Angevin Law Reforms ... 27*Paul HyamsBetween England and France: A Cross-Channel Legal Culture in the Late Thirteenth Century ... 73*Thomas J. McSweeneyThe Development of Written Custom in England and in France: A Comparative Perspective ... 101*Ada-Maria KuskowskiSuccess and Failure of the Medieval Constitution in 1341 ... 121*Scott WaughParliamentary Scrutiny of Royal Ministers and Courtiers in Fourteenth-Century England: The Disgrace of Sir John atte Lee (1368) ... 161*W. Mark OrmrodThe Altered Perspective of Thomas Walsingham’s Symbol of Normandy ... 189*Christopher GuyolCentre and Locality: Perceptions of the Assize Justices in Late Medieval England ... 211*Anthony MussonThe Common Voice in Theory and Practice in Late Fourteenth Century England ... 243*Andrew GallowayLandscape and the Identity of the Realm ... 287*Lynn StaleyThe People, Politics and the Constitution in the Fifteenth Century ... 311*Anthony PollardLaw, Justice, and Governance: New Views on Medieval Constitutionalism ... 331*G.W. BernardIndex ... 343