Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe
- Submitting institution
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 28011
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.2307/j.ctvvnc12
- Publisher
- Arc Humanities Press
- ISBN
- 9781942401117
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- The idea for this volume was developed by Lambourn following her own engagements with Islamic and Indic legal sources in the course of her material culture research. Recognising that law has been a primary locus and vehicle of contact across human history, Lambourn conceived of an edited volume that would explore legal contact zones across a variety of medieval contexts and highlight the applicability of such sources beyond “legal history” strictly defined. The final global scope of the volume, encompassing the New World through essays on Aztec law (Offner) and the Inca legal legacy in early Colonial Peru (Ramírez) was shaped by Lambourn’s active involvement in the Global turn in medieval studies, via the AHRC funded research network Defining the Global Middle Ages (Universities of Oxford and Birmingham) and the new journal The Medieval Globe (established in 2012). Lambourn invited and helped frame the seven contributions resulting in a volume of global geographical coverage - Europe, South Asia, Arabian Peninsula, Horn of Africa, Central and South America – authored both by specialist legal historians (Offner, Davis, Ackerman-Lieberman) and non-specialists (Ramírez, Tegegne, Skinner, Wilson, Lambourn), from across the career spectrum. Lambourn wrote the “Introduction” (pp. vii-xiv) which introduces the volume and the individual contributions. Lambourn also approached Ackerman-Lieberman to co-author their innovative inter-disciplinary study of Jewish law and domestic material culture in medieval Yemen “Chinese Porcelain and the Material Taxonomies of Medieval Rabbinic Law” (pp. 199-237).
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- Non-English
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