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Nobody Messes with Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester: Punishing the...
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 26 November 2021. All Hallows in London. A felon’s right to claim sanctuary upon sacred ground for a period of forty days is hardly a new subject for this blog (see previous...
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Gaol and Gaol-breaking in Early Modern Ireland
Posted by Coleman A. Dennehy, 13 March 2022 Whilst many aspects of the state as we would understand it today were more likely under-developed if they existed at all, the gaol was actually a reasonably...
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Christened Cockerels and Heretical Hill-Diggers: Treasure Trove in Medieval...
Posted by Tom Johnson, 6 June 2022. On a Sunday night in August 1465, a group of people gathered in the village of Bunwell – about 15 miles southwest of Norwich, to summon an “aerial spirit,” in the...
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Doubt, Decency, and the History of English Witchcraft
Posted by Krista J. Kesselring, 26 July 2022. Some myths about the past float entirely free of the evidence, but some have just enough grounding in the documentary record to be particularly...
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Decriminalizing Heresy
Guest post by Hannah Wygiera, 31 August 2022. The boundaries between orthodoxy and heterodoxy changed repeatedly throughout the English Reformation. Despite changes to what constituted a heretical...
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‘Foul Facts’ and the ‘Pretended Marriage’ of Jane Puckering (1649)
Posted by Krista J. Kesselring, 24 April 2023. Being a rich heiress was dangerous when the law gave a man control of his wife’s property. Jane Puckering learned as much when Joseph Walsh had her...
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John Cotta: An Early, Failed Forensic Toxicologist?
Posted by Krista J. Kesselring, 20 July 2023. John Cotta has a minor residual fame as the author of a book on how best to identify witches, but also tried his hand at detecting poisoners. First...
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Legal Records Jamboree: 1. Pleadings
Guest post by Daniel Gosling and Charlotte Smith, 12 October 2023. In June 2023, The National Archives (UK), generously supported by The Journal of Legal History/Taylor & Francis and British...
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On Delight in Legal History
Guest post by Richard W. Ireland, 13 November 2023. This piece is about delight. Legal history being, as its name suggests, a hybrid discipline, it sometimes has to defend itself, to justify its...
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