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Cecil Nathan Sidney Woolf (1887–1917), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was killed in the First World War. In this prize-winning book, published in 1913, Woolf examines the way in which the medieval jurist Bartolus of Sassoferrato (1314–57) interprets the Roman Law to make it relevant to fourteenth-century Italian political reality. Considering Bartolus's treatment of the relationships between the Roman Empire and the papacy, kingdoms and city-republics, Woolf places Bartolus's thought in its wider historical context by surveying the complex problem of the empire from the mid-thirteenth century onwards. In particular, he assesses Bartolus's most famous argument that the city is its own emperor. Arguing that Bartolus's influence lasted into the early modern period, both in the practice of law and in the use made of his works by writers like Bodin and Albericus Gentilis, this book also includes a useful table explaining Bartolus's distinctions between imperium and jurisdiction

In this book, the author explores medieval society's fascination with the cross-dressed woman. The author examines a wide variety of religious, literary, and historical sources, which record interpretations of sartorial attempts to overcome gender hierarchy and also illustrate, mainly through the device of inversion, a remarkably sustained desire to examine and reexamine the nature of social gender identities

"This book presents a synthetic history of the family - the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities - Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history."--Jacket

Focusing on France and England from the Merovingian and early Anglo-Saxon eras up to about 1200, White analyzes Latin, Old French, and Old English texts that represent both associations among nobles and their kin, lords, men, and friends; and conflicts between and within aristocratic groups. He investigates the political dimensions of such associations, giving particular attention to patronage/clientage, the use of land as an item of exchange, rights in land, competition for honor, and outright feuds. One of the 13 essays appears here for the first time; the others are reproduced from publication between 1975 and 2004. Annotation :2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

THIS PAPER FOCUSES ON THE ORIGINS OF THE INQUISITION. AS THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES, ITS ORIGIN AND SUBSEQUENT HISTORY AS A SPECIALIZED AND DIFFERENTIATED RELIGIOUS JURIDICAL INSTITUTION DEPENDED UPON A PECULIAR COMBINATION OF CHANGES BOTH AT THE LEVEL OF THE CIVILIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF WESTERN EUROPE, AS WELL AS THE MORE LOCAL EVENTS AND PROCESSES WITHIN THE SOCIOCULTURAL SETTINGS OF THE VARIOUS EUROPEAN NATIONS.

Papers presented at the 61st Session of Indian History Congress, January 2-4, 2001 at Calcutta

This paper employs a unique, hand‐collected dataset of exchange rates for five major currencies (the lira of Barcelona, the pound sterling of England, the pond groot of Flanders, the florin of Florence and the livre tournois of France) to consider whether the law of one price and purchasing power parity held in Europe during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Using single series and panel unit root and stationarity tests and cointegration analysis on 10 real exchange rates between 1383 and 1411, we show that the parity relationship held for the pound sterling and some of the Florentine florin series individually and for almost all of the groups that we investigate. Our findings add to the weight of evidence that trading and arbitrage activities stopped real exchange rates deviating permanently from fair values. This research extends the results reported in other studies back more than 600 years.