The Learned and Lived Law
Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue
Published on 7. November 2024
Book
Hardback
612 pages
978-90-04-70794-8 (ISBN)
Description
This wide-ranging collection of essays reflects the manifold scholarly interests of legal historian Charles Donahue, whose former students engage here with questions related to foundational Roman law concepts, the impact of the law on women and families in medieval and early modern Europe, the intersection of law and religion, and the echoes of legal ideas on later developments in American law and in world literature and philosophy. From the monks of Metz to the book sellers of colonial Boston, from fourteenth-century English charters to the writings of Faust, these essays invite you to experience law at once learned and lived.
Contributors are: Charles Bartlett, Anton Chaevitch, Wim Decock, Rowan Dorin, Sally E. Hadden, Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch, Nikitas E. Hatzimihail, Samantha Kahn Herrick, Daniel Jacobs, Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Amalia D. Kessler, Saskia Lettmaier, Sara McDougall, Stuart M. McManus, Elizabeth W. Mellyn, Bharath Palle, Ryan Rowberry, Carol Symes, James R. Townshend, and John Witte, Jr.
Contributors are: Charles Bartlett, Anton Chaevitch, Wim Decock, Rowan Dorin, Sally E. Hadden, Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch, Nikitas E. Hatzimihail, Samantha Kahn Herrick, Daniel Jacobs, Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Amalia D. Kessler, Saskia Lettmaier, Sara McDougall, Stuart M. McManus, Elizabeth W. Mellyn, Bharath Palle, Ryan Rowberry, Carol Symes, James R. Townshend, and John Witte, Jr.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
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Height: 238 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
998 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-70794-8 (9789004707948)
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Elizabeth Papp Kamali, J.D. (2007), Harvard Law School, Ph.D. (2015), University of Michigan, is the Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and author of Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge, 2019).
Saskia Lettmaier, S.J.D. (2015), Harvard Law School, is Professor on the Faculty of Law, University of Kiel, Hamburg, and author of Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940 (Oxford, 2010), as well as Spouses, Church, and State: Marriage Law in England and Protestant Germany from the Reformation until the Close of the Nineteenth Century (Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming).
Nikitas E. Hatzimihail, S.J.D. (2002), Harvard Law School, is Professor in the Department of Law, University of Cyprus and author of Preclassical Conflict of Laws (Cambridge, 2023).
Saskia Lettmaier, S.J.D. (2015), Harvard Law School, is Professor on the Faculty of Law, University of Kiel, Hamburg, and author of Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940 (Oxford, 2010), as well as Spouses, Church, and State: Marriage Law in England and Protestant Germany from the Reformation until the Close of the Nineteenth Century (Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming).
Nikitas E. Hatzimihail, S.J.D. (2002), Harvard Law School, is Professor in the Department of Law, University of Cyprus and author of Preclassical Conflict of Laws (Cambridge, 2023).
Content
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
??Elizabeth? ?Papp Kamali?? and ??Saskia? ?Lettmaier?????
Part 1?
Roman Law?
1?Towards a Taxonomy of Witnesses in Roman Law
??James R.? ?Townshend?????
2?"Si Bononiensis": Glossators and the Conflicts of Law
??Nikitas? ?Hatzimihail?????
3?Roman Property, Corporate Personhood, and the Politics of Natural Law in Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy: Venice, Baldus, and the? res communes omnium
??Charles? ?Bartlett?????
4?Abandonment, animus? and animalia ferae naturae? in ?Hugo Grotius' De iure belli ac pacis???
??Daniel? ?Jacobs?????
5?"For the Sake of Mental Health and Mutual Peace": The? Transactio-?Agreement in Early Modern Law and Theology???
??Wim? ?Decock??????
Part 2?
Women, Marriage, and the Law?
6?Consent in Medieval English Marriage and Misconduct
??Elizabeth Papp? ?Kamali?????
7?Written Law and Practice: Realities for Women in Bas Languedoc in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
??Elizabeth? ?Haluska-Rausch?????
8?Sex with Nuns in Medieval France
??Sara? ?McDougall?????
9?Oikos? and Oikonomika:? The Early Modern Family as a Matrix of Modern Economics
??John? ?Witte?????
10?Legal and Factual Uncertainty in a Seventeenth-Century French Marriage Case
??Saskia? ?Lettmaier?????
11?Marriage Law between East and West: Charles Maigrot's? Dissertatio de Matrimonio Sinarum
??Stuart M.? ?McManus??????
Part 3?
Medieval and Early Modern Law?
12?Getting Ahead in a Twelfth-Century City: The Ambitious Monks of Saint-Cl?e?ment, Metz???
??Samantha Kahn? ?Herrick?????
13?The Papal Constitution Execrabilis? (1317) and Clerical Justices in the English Royal Courts
??Ryan? ?Rowberry?????
14?Dangerous Dreams: Le Songe du Vergier and the Expulsion of Jews from Fourteenth-Century France???
??Rowan? ?Dorin?????
15?Suicide in Early Modern Italy
??Elizabeth W.? ?Mellyn?????
16??The "Desire of Deeds": On Cherishing Medieval English Charters
??Carol? ?Symes??????
Part 4?
American Legal History?
17?Lawyers and Their Book Collections: Notes from the Eighteenth Century
??Sally E.? ?Hadden?????
18?The American Importation of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide: Francis Lieber's Failed Transplant and Its Early Twentieth-Century Resurgence
??Amalia D.? ?Kessler??????
Part 5?
Literature and Legal Theory?
19?Faust: Goethe's Guide to Legal Progress
??Anton? ?Chaevitch?????
20?Wesley Hohfeld's Modernist Imagination
??Bharath? ?Palle??????
Appendix: Reflections from Former Students?
Appendix 1?When Giants Roamed: A Reflection
??Thomas S.? ?Burns?????
Appendix 2?De magistro eruditissimo et beneficentissimo: A Reflection
??Mary Elizabeth Basile? ?Chopas?????
Appendix 3?The Teachings of Charles Donahue on the Middle Ages from the Perspective of a Student of Mexican Legal History: A Reflection
??William? ?Su?a?rez-Potts?????
Appendix 4?Chi Squares, Chant, and Charlie: A Reflection
??Claire? ?Valente??????
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
??Elizabeth? ?Papp Kamali?? and ??Saskia? ?Lettmaier?????
Part 1?
Roman Law?
1?Towards a Taxonomy of Witnesses in Roman Law
??James R.? ?Townshend?????
2?"Si Bononiensis": Glossators and the Conflicts of Law
??Nikitas? ?Hatzimihail?????
3?Roman Property, Corporate Personhood, and the Politics of Natural Law in Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy: Venice, Baldus, and the? res communes omnium
??Charles? ?Bartlett?????
4?Abandonment, animus? and animalia ferae naturae? in ?Hugo Grotius' De iure belli ac pacis???
??Daniel? ?Jacobs?????
5?"For the Sake of Mental Health and Mutual Peace": The? Transactio-?Agreement in Early Modern Law and Theology???
??Wim? ?Decock??????
Part 2?
Women, Marriage, and the Law?
6?Consent in Medieval English Marriage and Misconduct
??Elizabeth Papp? ?Kamali?????
7?Written Law and Practice: Realities for Women in Bas Languedoc in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
??Elizabeth? ?Haluska-Rausch?????
8?Sex with Nuns in Medieval France
??Sara? ?McDougall?????
9?Oikos? and Oikonomika:? The Early Modern Family as a Matrix of Modern Economics
??John? ?Witte?????
10?Legal and Factual Uncertainty in a Seventeenth-Century French Marriage Case
??Saskia? ?Lettmaier?????
11?Marriage Law between East and West: Charles Maigrot's? Dissertatio de Matrimonio Sinarum
??Stuart M.? ?McManus??????
Part 3?
Medieval and Early Modern Law?
12?Getting Ahead in a Twelfth-Century City: The Ambitious Monks of Saint-Cl?e?ment, Metz???
??Samantha Kahn? ?Herrick?????
13?The Papal Constitution Execrabilis? (1317) and Clerical Justices in the English Royal Courts
??Ryan? ?Rowberry?????
14?Dangerous Dreams: Le Songe du Vergier and the Expulsion of Jews from Fourteenth-Century France???
??Rowan? ?Dorin?????
15?Suicide in Early Modern Italy
??Elizabeth W.? ?Mellyn?????
16??The "Desire of Deeds": On Cherishing Medieval English Charters
??Carol? ?Symes??????
Part 4?
American Legal History?
17?Lawyers and Their Book Collections: Notes from the Eighteenth Century
??Sally E.? ?Hadden?????
18?The American Importation of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide: Francis Lieber's Failed Transplant and Its Early Twentieth-Century Resurgence
??Amalia D.? ?Kessler??????
Part 5?
Literature and Legal Theory?
19?Faust: Goethe's Guide to Legal Progress
??Anton? ?Chaevitch?????
20?Wesley Hohfeld's Modernist Imagination
??Bharath? ?Palle??????
Appendix: Reflections from Former Students?
Appendix 1?When Giants Roamed: A Reflection
??Thomas S.? ?Burns?????
Appendix 2?De magistro eruditissimo et beneficentissimo: A Reflection
??Mary Elizabeth Basile? ?Chopas?????
Appendix 3?The Teachings of Charles Donahue on the Middle Ages from the Perspective of a Student of Mexican Legal History: A Reflection
??William? ?Su?a?rez-Potts?????
Appendix 4?Chi Squares, Chant, and Charlie: A Reflection
??Claire? ?Valente??????
Bibliography
Index