Tom Johnson is an Associate Professor of History and Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. He is the author of Law in Common: Legal Cultures in Late-Medieval England as well as numerous essays on medieval history and historical method. Among other subjects, he has written about the laws of shipwreck, what Marx can tell us about medieval ghost stories, and why people went to soothsayers to solve crimes. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.

Tom Johnson is an Associate Professor of History and Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. He is the author of Law in Common: Legal Cultures in Late-Medieval England as well as numerous essays on medieval history and historical method. Among other subjects, he has written about the laws of shipwreck, what Marx can tell us about medieval ghost stories, and why people went to soothsayers to solve crimes. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.

Tom Johnson is an Associate Professor of History and Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. He is the author of Law in Common: Legal Cultures in Late-Medieval England as well as numerous essays on medieval history and historical method. Among other subjects, he has written about the laws of shipwreck, what Marx can tell us about medieval ghost stories, and why people went to soothsayers to solve crimes. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.