Records of crime and disputes offer us some of the most intriguing insights into the premodern past. As one of the few types of source material which purports to record the actual speech and behaviour of individuals, they can seem to speak to us directly from the page — an illusion which sparked fascination with early microhistorical classics such as Montaillou, but which has subsequently prompted the emergence of a more cautious historiography engaged with their methodological challenges. Over the last thirty years a growing body of work has continued to demonstrate the enormous potential of court records for numerous avenues of enquiry, whether into practices of memory, gender, subjectivity, emotion, vengeance, feuding, honour, the history of legal institutions, and others.
This Special Collection brings together an international group of scholars at various stages of their career working on all aspects of late medieval court records, whether secular or ecclesiastical, with an interest in methodological issues pertaining to them. Questions we seek to pursue include: how do we define and access the truths or realities presented through records of disputes and crime? How did contemporaries use these documents to interact with each other, to create truths and to shape the reality of the world around them? And how should historians approach the images they present us with?
This Special Collection is guest edited by Dr. Frans Camphuijsen, University of Amsterdam and Dr. Jamie Page, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.
Image: Detail from the first Olim-register of the Parlement de Paris, 1254-1273 Credit: Archives Nationales, X1A1, fol. 3 Photo: Frans Camphuijsen
Editorial
Introduction: New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records
Frans Camphuijsen and Jamie Page
2019-11-29 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 69
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New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records
Criminalising Animals in Medieval France: Insights from Records of Executions
Lesley Bates MacGregor
2019-02-26 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 15
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Between Courtoom and Castello: A Tuscan Dispute’s Social and Procedural Profile
Joseph Figliulo-Rosswurm
2019-02-26 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 16
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Legal Ephemera in the Ecclesiastical Courts of Late-Medieval England
Tom Johnson
2019-02-26 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 17
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Penitential Themes in 14th-Century Sienese Petitions for Amnesty: How Can They Contribute to the Debate on the ‘Voices’ of Medieval Court Records?
Lidia Luisa Zanetti Domingues
2019-04-02 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 24
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Afterword: Court Records and the Growth of States 1100–1800
Ian Forrest
2019-11-21 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 66
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