Law, Laity and Solidarities

Pauline Stafford is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Liverpool. Janet L. Nelson is Professor of Medieval History at King’s College, University of London. Jane Martindale taught Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge

• Introduction1. Writing about Charles Martel - Paul Fouracre2. Peers in the early middle ages - Janet L. Nelson3. Stepmothers in Frankish legal life - Brigitte Kasten4. Political ideas in late tenth-century England: Charters as evidence - Pauline Stafford5. Medieval mentalities and primative legal practice - Michael Clanchy6. The problem of treason: the trial of Daire le Roux - Stephen D. White7. Between law and politics: Thr judicial duel under the Angevin kings - Jane Martindale8. Local custon in early common law - Paul Brand9. 'Slaves of the Normans'? Gerald de Barri and regnal solidarity in early thirteenth-century England - John Gillingham10. Kinsmen, neighbours and communities in Wales and the Western British Isles, c.1100–c.1400 - Rees Davies11. Lay kinship solidarity and Papal law - David d'Avray12. Laity, laicicization and Philip the Fair of France - Elizabeth R. Brown13. Lay solidarities: The wards of medieval London - Caroline Barron14. Language, laughter and lay solidarities: and inquiry into the decline of pilgrimage and crusading - Charles T. Wood15. Lay/Clerical distinctions in Early India - Romila TharparA bibliography of Susan Reynold's workIndex