TY - JOUR
T1 - Law beyond the legal renaissance:
T2 - Rethinking jurisdiction in the European central Middle Ages
AU - Summerlin, Danica
AU - Taylor, Alice
PY - 2025/3/24
Y1 - 2025/3/24
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1080/01440365.2025.2456287
DO - 10.1080/01440365.2025.2456287
M3 - Article
SN - 0144-0365
VL - 46
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Journal of Legal History
JF - Journal of Legal History
IS - 1
ER -