Examines how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice and politics, as well as their role in society.

The aim of this book is to present in lucid and approachable terms the main outline of the debate and the different schools of thought, and to suggest the best ways by which students can understand a crucial subject and how this helps ...

The first book to address the way that the broad and inclusive subject of legal history is researched and written.

It concentrates on the personnel of local justice and the wider administrative context to build up a composite picture of attitudes to public order and law enforcement through a systematic examination of the surviving legal records.