The Moral World of the Law

Abstract

List of contributors Preface 1. Introduction Peter Coss 2. The language of law in classical Athens S. C. Todd 3. The autonomy of Roman law Andrew D. E. Lewis 4. Local participation and legal ritual in early medieval law courts Wendy Davies 5. Due process versus the maintenance of order in European law: the contribution of the ius commune Paul Hyams 6. Inside the courtroom: lawyers, litigants and justices in England in the later middle ages Paul Brand 7. 'Nemo mortalis cognitus vivit in evo': moral and legal conflicts in a Florentine inheritance case of 1442 Thomas Kuehn 8. Law, litigants and the construction of 'honour': slander suits in early modern England Martin Ingram 9. Story-telling and the social imagery of religious conflict in nineteenth-century French law courts Caroline Ford 10. 'Their idea of justice is so peculiar': Southern Rhodesia 1890-1910 Diana Jeater 11. Kenyatta's trials: breaking and making an African nationalist John Lonsdale 12. Conclusion Chris Wickham Index.