BOOK: Elizabeth PAPP KAMALI, Saskia LETTMAIER & Nikitas HATZIMIHAIL (eds.), The Learned and Lived Law. Essays in Honour of Charles Donahue [Legal History Library, eds. Dirk HEIRBAUT, Matthew C. MIROW, Michelle MCKINLEY & Remco VAN RHEE; 70] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2024), XVIII + 594 p. ISBN 9789004710696, € 217,8

 

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On the editors:

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).

Table of contents:

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-Clément, 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 Suárez-Potts

Appendix 4 Chi Squares, Chant, and Charlie: A Reflection
  Claire Valente

Bibliography

Index

Read the book  here: DOI 10.1163/9789004710696.