Summerlin, D. orcid.org/0000-0002-1559-9365 and Taylor, A. (2025) Law beyond the legal renaissance: rethinking jurisdiction in the European central Middle Ages. Journal of Legal History, 46 (1). pp. 1-19. ISSN 0144-0365
Abstract
The introduction to this special issue lays out its approach to the phenomenon of jurisdiction during the European central Middle Ages. Rethinking jurisdiction, we argue, is key to understanding the profound change the period underwent in terms of its law and legal culture. We explain, first, why ‘legal pluralism’ has not offered a meaningful structure to understand the creativity inherent in law-making (in all its senses) in this period. Second, by adopting an ‘actor-centric’ approach to jurisdiction, we then set out how the essays in this collection address how and why jurisdictional boundaries were created, maintained and subverted not only in legal disputes themselves but in the minds of people who were, in different ways, all involved in the making of law.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Authors. Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in The Journal of Legal History is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Law; jurisdiction; medieval Europe; legal pluralism; Roman law; canon law; custom; common law |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number BRITISH ACADEMY (THE) IC4/100216 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2025 15:23 |
Last Modified: | 25 Mar 2025 15:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01440365.2025.2456287 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:224752 |
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