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Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature

Report on CMEMLL Activities, 2015/16

Dear All, 2) Reading Groups

The Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and CMEMLL hosts regular reading groups, for which either Literature, active since October 2011, held its official a visiting speaker or a member of CMEMLL selects a inauguration in October 2012. text on a legal-literary topic for discussion. 3) Research Lectures/Seminars This fourth annual report gives an overview of the Centre’s activities from September 2015 to June 2016, and CMEMLL also hosts a programme of lectures/seminars a summary of the upcoming events for the academic year given by distinguished visiting/resident speakers. 2016/17, with thanks to the Schools of History and 4) International Conferences English, and the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research, which have provided funding. This newsletter CMEMLL has supported graduate-led international is produced annually for the reporting of past activities conferences on legal/literary and legal/historical topics. and for advertising what we have in store. In addition, CMEMLL offers a platform for research CMEMLL exists to stimulate research at the intersections projects and for making connections with other research of law, literature and history and to provide resources for institutions. We have corresponding members at the all staff and graduate students whose research involves Universities of Chicago, Emory, Michigan and the them in an encounter with legal texts and concepts. So far Lisbon Drama Conservatoire. we have hosted four types of event: CMEMLL’s Directors, Lorna Hutson and John Hudson, 1) CMEMLL Annual Lecture welcome new members and welcome any suggestions from members and others for events, texts for the Following CMEMLL’s successful inaugural lecture in Reading Group or ways in which we might extend our 2012 by the University of Cambridge’s Regius Professor activities. of Law, David Ibbetson, the CMEMLL Annual Lecture has been established. John Hudson and Lorna Hutson, Directors of CMEMLL

INSIDE THIS ISSUE 02 Research Events 2015/16. Sara Menzinger; Gadi Algazi and Steve White; Todd Butler; Dare to Tell; Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages, Transgression, Drama and Law, Talking Law, Living with the Law 10 Member Activities Research publications, invited talks, awards and funding, appointments 13 Forthcoming Events 2016/17 Semester 1 schedule 14 NEW CMEMLL is Changing

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CMEMLL READING GROUP

The CMEMLL Reading Group aims to facilitate the exploration of approaches to mediaeval and early modern legal texts and concepts from different disciplinary perspectives.

In 2015/16 we met on six occasions, drawing attendees – both staff and postgraduates - from across the University.

This year, reading group sessions followed the Institute’s theme, which was ‘Interpreting Literature, Law, and Constitution.’

In 2016/17, CMEMLL is changing. More details about these changes can be found on pages 13– 14 of this report.

The Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and JOHN HUDSON & LORNA HUTSON, directors of Literature’s annual lecture took place on 18 April 2016. CMEMLL, led the first reading group in our six-part On the topic of ‘Doing Law and Literature’ it took the series, INTERPRETING LITERATURE, LAW, & form of a joint lecture by Professors Stephen D. White CONSTITUTION (I), on Tuesday 6 October, 2015. The (Asa G. Candler Professor Emeritus of Medieval first CMEMLL Reading Group and the first meeting of History, Emory University) and Gadi Algazi (Tel Aviv). the Institute of Legal And Constitutional Research Both have written extensively on the subject, ranging (ILCR) involved an introduction and welcome by John from the Abbassid court to twelfth and thirteenth- Hudson and Lorna Hutson followed by discussion of century France. Professor White paid particular the over-arching theme. attention to issues of gift-giving whilst Professor Algazi explored the ways in which literature might provide The background reading is Chapter 1 of Christopher possible templates for behaviour. Warren, Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580- 1680 (Oxford: OUP, 2015). For University of St Together with a workshop session on the following Andrews researchers, this is available for download day, the Lecture brought to a close this year’s theme at: within the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research. http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acpr Professor John Hudson, Director of:oso/9780198719342.001.0001/acprof-9780198719342- Institite of Legal and Constitutional Research chapter-1

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CAROLINE HUMFRESS, Deputy Director of the ILCR 2. N. Malcolm, Aspects of Hobbes (Oxford, 2002), and Professor of Ancient History, led INTERPRETING Chapter 13 “Hobbes’ Theory of International LITERATURE, LAW, & CONSTITUTION (II), on Relations.” Tuesday 17 November, 2015. 3. David Boucher, ‘Hobbes’s Contribution to “When, in the early modern period, “the waves International Thought, and the Contribution of ruled Britannia”, the examples of Greek maritime International Thought to Hobbes,’ in History of empire became standards against which British European Ideas 41:1 (2015), pp. 29–48. rights and obligations in the world could be measured.” ANTHONY F. LANG, JR, Director of the Centre for (Christopher Warren) Global Constitutionalism and Professor of International Relations, led INTERPRETING In our second reading group we explored the LITERATURE, LAW, & CONSTITUTION (III), on ‘international thought’ of Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) Tuesday 15 December, 2015. in the context of his translation of Thucydides’ History The texts for discussion were: of the Peloponnesian War. 1. Hugo Grotius – ‘Prologue to the Three Books on We asked whether Hobbes simply ’translated’ the Law of War and Peace,’ ed. Stephen C. Neff. Thucydides (c.460–400BCE) from Greek into English, or whether he was also reshaping and restating 2. Martine Julia van Ittersum, ‘Hugo Grotius (1583- Thucydidean ideas for an early modern audience? 1645) – The Making of a Founding Father of The group discussed whether Hobbes was interested International Law.’ in the ancient Athenian constitution, the ‘way of life of 3. Christopher N. Warren, Literature and the Law of the citizen-body,’ and questioned how he related this Nations, 1580-1680 (Oxford, 2015). Chapter 6, to Athenian imperialism. ‘From Biblical Tragedy to Human Rights.’ If we read Hobbes’ translation of Thucydides as ‘literature’, Humfress pondered, how might this challenge our understanding of Hobbes as a ‘realist’ or a ‘rationalist’, in terms of subsequent international Do you have an idea for a relations theory? Can Thucydides, moreover, help us reading group or event? to unravel ‘the peculiar nature’ of Hobbes’ thought on natural law and the law of nations? Contact Dr Rachel E. Holmes ([email protected]).

The texts for discussion were:

1. Christopher N. Warren, Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 (Oxford, 2015). Chapter 5, ANTHONY F. LANG, JR, Director of the Centre for “From Imperial History to International Law” [St Global Constitutionalism and Professor of Andrews University Library Ebook] International Relations, led INTERPRETING LITERATURE, LAW, & CONSTITUTION (IV), on Tuesday 16 February, 2016. The texts for discussion were: 1. Anthony F. Lang, Jr. Between International Law 2015/16 REVIEW in The City & The City and Embassytown. In China Miéville: Critical Essays, (Canterbury: READING GROUP Gylphi, 2015), pp. 213–238. 2. China Miéville, ‘Editorial Introduction.’ Marxism and Fantasy [Special Issue]. Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, 10.4 (2002), pp. 39–49. CMEMLL READING GROUP

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KNUD HAAKONSSEN, Long-Term Fellow at the SARA MENZINGER, Substitute Professor of Legal Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social History at ROMA TRE visited CMEMLL on the 28 and Studies, University of Erfurt, and Professor of 29 September, 2015. Intellectual History (part-time) at the University of St While hosted jointly by the Centre for Mediaeval and Andrews, led INTERPRETING LITERATURE, LAW, Early Modern Law and Literature (CMEMLL) and the & CONSTITUTION (V), on Tuesday 8 March, 2016. St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies (SAIMS), This session focused on Adam Smith and Natural Law. she participated in two events.

The text for discussion was: On Monday 28 September, she led a seminar titled ‘Dante, the Bible and the Law: On the Trail of 1. Knud Haakonssen, ‘The Lectures on Uzzah in Medieval Legal-Theological Thought.’ Jurisprudence.’ In Adam Smith: His Life, In preparation for this session, she suggested the Thought, and Legacy, ed. Ryan Patrick Hanley following readings: (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), pp. 48-66. 1. Sara Menzinger, Dante and the Law. In Dante in Context, ed. Lino Pertile and Zygmund Baranski, (Forthcoming: Cambridge University Press). JOHN HUDSON & LORNA HUTSON, directors of CMEMLL, led the final reading group in our six-part 2. D. J. Kornstein, Fie Upon your Law!, in “Cardozo series, INTERPRETING LITERATURE, LAW, & Studies in Law and Literature”, 5.1 (1993): A CONSTITUTION (VI), on Tuesday 19 April, 2016. Symposium Issue on “The Merchant of Venice”, pp. 35-56. There was no reading in preparation for this session On Tuesday 29 September and a workshop on since it was intended both to follow on from the ‘Property and Citizenship in Mediaeval Debate.’ For CMEMLL Annual Lecture given by Steve White and this session, Menzinger prepared a series of Latin Gadi Algazi, and to draw together this year’s excerpts and translations from Albericus de Rosciate, conversations around ‘Interpreting Literature, Law, Gulielmus Durandus, and Franciscus Accursii. and Constitution.’ Sara Menzinger has published widely on the topic of Italian city states [e.g. Giuristi e politica nei comuni di CMEMLL READING GROUP Popolo. Siena, Perugia e Bologna, tre governi a confronto. Ius nostrum. Studi e testi pubblicati Next year’s theme will be ‘The dall’Istituto di Storia del Diritto italiano, Università degli Studi di Roma, “La Sapienza”, 34 (Roma, Futures of Law and Literature’ 2006). And with Emanuele Conte, Fisco, politica, scientia iuris (Roma, 2012). She has also conducted All sessions will take place at the research in many Italian and international universities University of Cambridge (see p.14). and research centres including the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt) and the Deutsches Historisches Institute (Rome).

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TODD BUTLER, Associate Professor and Chair at the other seventeenth-century advice writers helped spur Faculty of English, Washington State University, courts to exclude spousal testimony on the basis of visited CMEMLL on the 28 and 29 March, 2016. marital harmony rather than just masculine headship, an examination of modern legal scholarship on On Monday 28 March, he led a masterclass for spousal privileges also reveals a fundamental tension postgraduate and early career scholars on the in Milton’s tracts regarding the expression of self- following material. interest, one that demonstrates the difficulty both Milton and modern theorists such as Jürgen Habermas 1. Anon, A True Report of the Araignment, Tryall, have in accommodating distinctions of gender within Conviction, and Demnation of a Popish Priest (1607). not only early modern marriage but also constructions of the modern liberal subject.’ 2. Todd Butler, ‘Equivocation, Cognition, and Political Authority in Early Modern England’ Professor Butler offered a fascinating exploration of (2012). the legislation of spousal testimony, which for many of us opened up additional questions about the The masterclass was a productive discussion between gendered implications of these laws, and their colleagues in History and English that scrutinised the particular effect on feminine identity. This was a myriad ways we use historical documents in our stimulating paper with an exhilarating range of research. Discussion questions included: Can we read interests, many of which spoke directly to the research historical documents for rhetorical ‘moments’? Can (or undertaken by CMEMLL in 2015-2016. should) we read narrative in historical non-fiction? What is the difference between proving something Todd Butler’s main area of publication and research legally and proving it narratively? And finally: is it involves early modern literature, religion, and political possible to try a case by reading it? After the theory, but he maintains an active interest in early masterclass, Todd joined participants for dinner to modern crime and law, and how classical rhetoric in continue the conversation. particular can help us understand—if not challenge— processes of judicial decision-making. His publications On Tuesday 29 March, he gave a research lecture titled include Imagination and Politics in Seventeenth Century ‘Milton, Deliberative Liberty, and the Law of Spousal England (Ashgate, 2008) and ‘Swearing Justice in Privileges,’ which is best described by its abstract: Henry Goodcole and the Witch of Edmonton‘ (Studies in ‘Placing John Milton’s divorce tracts within the English Literature 50:1, 2010). broader context of both seventeenth-century marriage manuals and modern rules regarding spousal testimony at law, this paper argues that Milton’s ‘TRANSGRESSION particular interest in maintaining the privacy of A WORKSHOP TO MARK THE 70TH BIRTHDAY OF marital conversation illumines not only the course of PROFESSOR BILL MILLER’ legal and familial history but also the fundamental— and potentially flawed—assumptions of contemporary This event took place on 28 April, 2016 at St Andrews. political liberalism. While the arguments of Milton and It honoured, and was inspired by, Bill Miller’s wide- ranging work as well as his long-established connection with St Andrews. The papers reflected both his interests and the range of the material that he brings to his studies. The event featured three papers: 2015/16 REVIEW John Hudson on ‘Stringer’s Saga: Njal meets The Wire’; Nora Bartlett on ‘Silence as a Weapon of Self-Defense in Sense & Sensibility’; and Stuart Airle (Glasgow) on RESEARCH EVENTS ‘Bill Miller in the Wild East and Savage West’, a discussion taking in Masaki Kobayashi’s Seppuku (also known as Harakiri) and Clint Eastwood’s The Unforgiven. 12

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William Ian Miller is Thomas G. Long Professor of A conference in the 400th anniversary year of the Law at the University of Michigan. He was Carnegie publication of Jonson’s 1616 first Folio of Works. The Centenary Professor at the University of St. Andrews keynote speakers were Professor Martin Butler in 2007. He has been an Honorary Professor in the (University of Leeds) and Professor Julie Sanders School of History since 2011, and is also a (University of Newcastle), and the conference also Corresponding Member of CMEMLL and of the featured the world premiere of Ben and Jamie by Brean Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research. His Hammond in addition to a viewing with Special books include: Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, Collections of Jonson’s 1616 Folio. and Society in Saga Iceland (University of Chicago Press, 1990); “Why is your axe bloody?”: A Reading of Njáls saga Our looks are called into question, and our words, (Oxford University Press, 2014); and Losing It, in which How innocent soever, are made crimes; an aging professor laments his shrinking brain, which he We shall not shortly dare to tell our dreams, flatters himself formerly did him noble service: a plaint, Or think, but ’twill be treason’ (Sejanus (1603), 1.1.67- tragic-comical, historical, vengeful, sometimes satirical and 70). This conference asked, what does it mean to be thankful in six parts, if his memory does yet serve (Yale called into question, to speak out or to stay silent, to University Press, 2011). have innocent thoughts, guilty looks, or culpable dreams? Jonson’s plays, comic and tragic, foreground the processes of imaginative interpretation that CMEMLL CONFERENCE condition people’s actions, values and their very being.

DARE TO TELL: On this prominent anniversary of Jonson’s publication SILENCE AND SAYING IN BEN JONSON of his 1616 first Folio of Works, this conference

explored themes of publication and performance, SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, 1–3 APRIL, 2016 broadly conceived.

An abbreviated version of the remainder of the programme is included below.

Panel 1: Style, Space, and the City Speakers: Julianne Mentzer (St Andrews), Laura Swift (Manchester), Isabel Karremann (Würzberg)

Panel 2: Echoes and Silences Speakers: Rachel Horrocks (St Andrews), Jakub Boguszak (Oxford), Anna Groundwater (Edinburgh)

Panel 3: Credit, Authority, and Make Believe Speakers: Akihiko Shimizu (Edinburgh), Peter Sutton (St Andrews), Zoë Sutherland (St Andrews)

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CMEMLL this year continued the tradition of sponsoring a session in the 8th annual GENDER AND TRANSGRESSION IN THE MIDDLE AGES conference, which took place in April, 2016.

This year, the conference prioritised comparative approaches hat considered gender and transgression across temporal or national boundaries.

The CMEMLL-sponsored session, entitled ‘Codes of Conduct’ was chaired by Dr Margaret Connolly, and featured three papers.

Cory Hitt (St Andrews) spoke first on ‘Burning Breasts: Grieving Mothers as Counsel-Givers in Old French and Anglo-Norman Literature’. A celebration of Lorna Hutson’s time at the University Next, Claudia Wittig (York) delivered the paper, of St Andrews and CMEMLL, LAW AND DRAMA IN ‘Gendered Codes of Conduct and the Dangers of EARLY MODERN ENGLAND provided the Transgression.’ opportunity for a lively and productive debate between three of the foremost figures in early modern Finally, Joan Marie Gallagher (Glasgow) presented a law and literary studies: Lorna Hutson (St Andrews), paper entitled ‘Transgression, or Welsh Law? Quentin Skinner (QMUL), and Andrew Zurcher Aranrhod’s Unmaternal Behaviour in the Fourth (Queens’ College, Cambridge). Branch of the Mabinogi Re-examined.’ Using a piece by Holger Schott Syme (Toronto) as the A CMEMLL sponsored wine reception followed the starting point for the conversation, in which he argues session. Promotional literature from the Centre was that there is ‘a striking mismatch between the ways made available to the delegates, many of whom then justice was done in early modern England and the gathered at Pizza Express afterwards for an informal judicial processes depicted on stage,’ the discussants conference meal and discussion of the day’s papers. and their audienced engaged in an extended conversation about law’s relationship with early modern drama. As Syme points out in his article, this is an accepted and well-theorised correspondence, and the rhetorical foundations of this interrelation have 2015/16 REVIEW been particularly well advanced by each of the speakers. It is therefore unsurprising that this topic RESEARCH EVENTS became something of a focal point and put pressure on the interaction of classical influences (cf. Skinner, Forensic Shakespeare), early modern legal and theatrical innovations (cf. Hutson, Invention of Suspicion, Circumstantial Shakespeare). 12

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Questions were then invited from an audience of both academic and non-academic attendees and matters such as freedom of speech and the impact of the death penalty on society were discussed.

A companion website (talkinglaw.wp.st- MODERN PERSPECTIVES ON THE TRIAL OF andrews.ac.uk) has been created which contains PATRICK HAMILTON background information, guides to further reading, virtual reconstructions of the key locations involved in BYRE THEATRE, 6 MAY, 2016 the trial, quizzes and other interactive material.

In February 2016 the Institute of Legal and Talking Law received national media coverage Constitutional Research received an AHRC 10th through a feature on the BBC News website. Anniversary Public Engagement Grant for a project entitled ‘Talking Law’. The aim was to unite scholars and legal professionals with members of public in a discussion about the role of law in our society.

This was achieved through a dramatisation of the trial of Patrick Hamilton (tried and executed for heresy in St Andrews in 1528), followed by a public debate about the legal issues raised by the trial which are still relevant today.

The sell-out event took place at the Byre theatre in St Andrews on 6 May 2016. Hamilton’s trial was re- enacted by student actors, and a panel comprising a judge, a barrister and a retired assistant chief constable then discussed the issues which resonated with their own experience of the legal profession.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36037253).

A pitch for a follow-up radio series, bringing the ‘Talking Law’ format to a wider audience, is currently being developed.

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ILCR CONFERENCE EMOTIONS IN LEGAL PRACTICES: LIVING WITH THE LAW SOCIETY AND LEGAL DISPUTES, C. 1200–1700 Following on from the success of last year’s CMEMLL conference EMOTIONS IN THE SCHOOL OF HISTORY, 27–29 JUNE, 2016 COURTROOM, the organisers have planned a further 2-day international conference, EMOTIONS Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research hosted a IN LEGAL PRACTICES: HISTORICAL AND conference entitled “Living with the Law: Society and MODERN ATTITUDES COMPARED, at The Legal Disputes, c. 1200-1700.” University of Sydney 26-28 September 2016.

The conference, held from June 27-29, was organised This interdisciplinary conference aims to stimulate by Dr Will Eves and PhD student Sarah White, and genuine debate and encourage serious reflection on papers were given by research students, early career the enduring ‘problem’ of rationality and emotions. researchers, and established and senior scholars. The aim is for scholars and legal practitioners to bring their different disciplinary expertise to The two keynote lectures were given by Professor reconsider collectively the role of emotions in legal Paul Brand (“The Law and Social Mobility in practices both historically and today and, potentially, Thirteenth-Century England: The Case of the Weyland inform new legal policies. Family”) and Professor Sir John Baker (“1616: ‘A Year Consecrate to Justice’”). Further details are available on the Centre for the History of Emotions website: Panels covered “The Manipulation of Legal Process in High Medieval Europe” (Felicity Hill, Kenneth http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/emotio Duggan, and Cory Hitt, chaired by William Ian ns-in-legal-practices-historical-and-modern-attitudes- Miller), “Legal Interpretation and Theory” (Danica compared/?date=2016-09-27 Summerlin, Joanna McCunn, and Lorenzo Moniscalco, chaired by Emanuele Conte), “Edinburgh Law School Registration is free but bookings are essential. Please Session” (Hector MacQueen and John W. Cairns, register at http://alturl.com/zyfjq chaired by Colin Kidd), “Law and Legal Practice in Early Modern Europe” (Kelsey Jackson-Williams, Julia Symposium organisers: Kelso, and Saskia Limbach, chaired by Magnus Ryan), Merridee Bailey (The University of Adelaide) “Lordship, Loyalty and the Law” (Matt McHaffie and Kimberley-Joy Knight (The University of Sydney) Josh Hey, chaired by George Garnett). Keynote speakers: On the final day of the conference, John Hudson, Annalise Acorn (University of Alberta) William Ian Miller, and Magnus Ryan led a Hila Keren (Southwestern Law School, LA) roundtable discussion, with a closing summary by Magistrate Hugh Dillon, Deputy State Coroner, NSW Caroline Humfress. Prof. Payam Akhavan (via Skype), McGill University, Montreal, Canada Papers covered the medieval and early modern periods, and concerned both the common law and ius commune. The mix of junior and senior researchers led to interesting discussions and established new connections between the various universities represented by the attendees. 2015/16 REVIEW The conference also included a chance to see the Marchmont MS of Regiam Majestatem recently RESEARCH EVENTS acquired by St Andrews, as well a number of interesting legal-themed items from Special Collections in a thoughtful and well-curated display organised by Rachel Hart and Maia Sheridan. 12

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CMEMLL FOUNDERS ELECTED FELLOWS OF THE “I owe more than can be said to my colleagues in St BRITISH ACADEMY Andrews over the years, taking particular pleasure in collaborative work with postgraduate and post- PROFESSOR JOHN HUDSON of the School of History doctoral scholars here in recent times, and with and PROFESSOR LORNA HUTSON of the School of established colleagues in Europe and North America. English at the University of St Andrews, and founding I hope that my Fellowship of the British Academy Directors of CMEMLL have been elected Fellows of will allow me to extend such collaborative work in the British Academy. the future.”

Professor Lorna Hutson is Berry Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews and she will take up the post of Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford on 1 September 2016. Her interests are in the rhetorical bases of Renaissance Literature, emphasizing fiction’s affinities with forensic rhetoric. Her 2007 book, The Invention of Suspicion, won the Roland Bainton Prize for Professors Hudson and Hutson are among 42 new Literature and her most recent book, Circumstantial Fellows named by the Academy, in recognition of Shakespeare (2015) is based on the Oxford Wells their world-leading research into the humanities and Shakespeare Lectures delivered in 2012. social sciences, including law, linguistics, economics and history. Together, Professors Hudson and Hutson Professor Lorna Hutson commented, “I am honoured have co-directed The Centre for Mediaeval and Early and delighted to be elected to the British Academy Modern Law and Literature at the University of St and especially to have been elected while still in post Andrews for the past five years. at the University of St Andrews, before I take up my new post at Oxford in September. The British Academy is the premier national body representing the humanities and the social sciences, “St Andrews has an exceptionally vibrant Faculty of the counterpart of the Royal Society for the natural Arts, within which English Literature is outstanding. sciences. “Literary criticism has the advantage of bringing a fine-grained precision to the broader work of cultural An expert in both mediaeval studies and legal history, and historical analysis. I’ve been privileged, at St Professor John Hudson’s work focuses on 9th to 13th- Andrews, to have the chance of working with century England. His research also spans mediaeval historians and legal historians who appreciate the historical writing and late 19th-century study of insights literature affords. mediaeval England. At the University of St Andrews, he is founding Director of the Institute of Legal and “I hope that I will be able, as a Fellow of the British Constitutional Research, and he has a visiting position Academy, to work for the furthering of such as William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the interdisciplinary conversations and for the University of Michigan. advancement of the Humanities in general.”

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WILL EVES, Assistant to the Directors of the Institute § Participant at Women Negotiating Justice: Britain of Legal and Constitutional Research, University of St and Ireland, c. 1100–c.1750, Cardiff University. Andrews. § Invited speaker at Iberian Literature and Culture § Awarded his Ph.D. in Mediaeval History for a in Early Modern England, University of thesis titled ‘The Assize of Mort d'Ancestor: From Newcastle. 1176 to 1230. § Elected Scouloudi Fellow by the Institute of ROBERT HOUSTON, Professor in the School of Historical Research. History, University of St Andrews.

§ Published ‘People, Space, and Law in Late- JUSTINE FIRNHABER-BAKER, Lecturer in the School Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland,’ of History, University of St Andrews. in Past & Present 230, 1, pp. 47-89.

§ Published ‘Soldiers, Villagers, and Politics: Military Violence and the Jacquerie of 1358,’ JOHN HUDSON, Professor in the School of History, in Routiers et mercenaries pendant la guerre de Cent Director of CMEMLL and the Institute of Legal and ans, ed. G. Pépin, F. Laine, & F. Boutolle, Constitutional Research, University of St Andrews. Bordeaux: Ausonius, Vol. 28 (9 Mar 2016). § Published ‘Maitland and Austin: Legal History § Member of ERC Starting Grant Project ‘STATE – and Legal Thought in the Late Nineteenth Lordship and the Rise of the State in Western Century,’ in Law and Authority in British Legal Europe, 1300–1600’ (2016–2021). History, 1200–1900 (Cambridge University Press, § Became Editor of The Mediaeval Review. 2016). § rd § Continues as £50 Fellow at All Souls College, Published Magna Carta, 3 edition, ed. and intro. J. University of Oxford (2015–2022). Holt, J. Hudson, and G. Garnett (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

RACHEL E. HOLMES, Research Associate on the ERC § Participant in Talking Law: Modern Perspectives Project Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern on the Trial of Patrick Hamilton. England: The Place of Literature at CRASSH/Faculty of § Elected a Fellow of the British Academy. English, University of Cambridge and CMEMLL organiser.

§ Elected as a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson CAROLINE HUMFRESS, Professor in the School of College, University of Cambridge. History, Director of the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research, University of St Andrews. § Invited speaker, Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar, University of Cambridge. § Published ‘Gift-giving and Inheritance Strategies in Late Roman Law and Legal Practice,’ in § Invited speaker on the panel Rape and Sexual Donations, Strategies and Relations in the Latin West Violence in Early Modern Europe at the ESSHC and Nordic Countries, ed. O-A Rønning, H. Møller 2016, Valencia. Sigh, and H. Vogt (Routledge, 2016). § Published ‘Ordering Diving Knowledge in Late Roman Legal Discourse,’ in COLLeGIUM 20, p. 2015/16 REVIEW 160–176. § Invited speaker, Faculty of Law, Hebrew MEMBER ACTIVITIES University, ‘Law as Religion, Religion as Law.’ § Invited speaker, ‘Roundtable: Jurisdiction in a Pluralist World – History, Theory, Challenges’ at

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§ Plenary speaker at Gender and Transgression in University of Edinburgh. the Middle Ages 2016 at the University of St § Appointed as Assistant Professor in the Andrews Department of English at Shiv Nadar University, § Invited speaker at ‘Roundtable: Jurisdiction in a India Pluralist World – History, Theory, Challenges’ at § Her book, Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince the School of Law, QMUL. and the Problem of Lawmaking Violence in Early § Invited speaker, Law School, University of Modern Drama is under contract with University of Edinburgh, ‘Natural Laws and the Hypothetical Liverpool Press. Case Method in Roman Juristic Writings.’

§ Invited speaker at Individuals and Legal MATT MCHAFFIE, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Institutions Around the Mediterranean, Duke at King’s College London. University. § Continues as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at

King’s College London (2014–2017). LORNA HUTSON, Professor in the School of English and Director of CMEMLL, University of St Andrews. § Invited speaker, William and Mary College, MARIA SEQUEIRA MENDES, Assistant Professor at Virginia, ‘Circumstantial Shakespeare.’ the School of Cinema and Theatre of the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute. § Invited speaker, University of Geneva, ‘Circumstantial Shakespeare. § Elected as a Beaufort Visiting Fellow at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. § Invited speaker, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, ‘Thinking with Causes: Henry V and Scotland.’ JULIANNE MENTZER, Ph.D. student in the School § Invited speaker, University of Sheffield, ‘Thinking of English, University of St Andrews. with Causes: Henry V and Scotland.’ § Published ‘Exclusionary Male Space and the § Plenary speaker at SCEMS Masterclass at the Limitations of Discursive Reasoning in Love’s University of Sheffield, ‘Proof, Evidence, and Labour’s Lost,’ in Nouvelles Lectures de Love’s Drama in Early Modern England.’ Labour’s Lost: Actes des Congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 32 (2015). § Gave the British Academy Shakespeare Lecture

2016, ‘The Shakespearean Unscene.’ WILLIAM I. MILLER, Thomas G. Long Professor of § Elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Law at the University of Michigan and Honorary § Continues as a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow Professor of History at the University of St Andrews. for Shakespeare’s Scotland, 1503–1616. (2014-2017). § His book, Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, § Made an Honorary Professor of English at the Hard Choices is under contract with Oxford University of St Andrews University Press (Forthcoming, 2017).

TORIA JOHNSON, Teaching Fellow in the School of English, University of St Andrews. § Appointed as a Teaching Fellow in Early Modern 2015/16 REVIEW Literature and Romanticism at the University of Birmingham. MEMBER ACTIVITIES DOYEETA MAJUMDER, Teaching Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures at the Report On CMEMLL Activities, 2015/16 13

JAMIE PAGE, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University. SEMESTER 1, 2016/2017 § Published ‘Sex and Secrecy: A Secular Prosecution of Aborion in Fourteenth-Century Zurich,’ in The CMEMLL READING GROUP Mediaeval Journal 5 (2015), pp. 81–106. RACHEL E. HOLMES & ANDREW ZURCHER § Continues as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at ‘Futures of Law and Literature (I)’ Durham University (2014–2017). Monday 24 October, 2016, 4-5pm

Queens’ College, University of Cambridge JACQUELINE ROSE, Lecturer in the School of History, University of St Andrews. CMEMLL RESEARCH SEMINAR in conjunction § Published The Politics of Counsel in England and with the Wolson College Humanities Society Scotland, 1286–1707, ed. J. E. Rose (Oxford JACKIE WATSON (BIRKBECK) University Press, 2016). ‘[T]hough ramme stinks with cookes and ale,/ § Published ‘The Contexts of Locke’s Political yet say thers many a Worthy lawyers chamber,/ Thought,’ in A Companion to Locke, ed. H. Stuart buts vpon rame-alley’: An Innsman goes to the (Wiley Blackwell, 2016). Playhouse Tuesday 15 November, 2015, 5.45pm ZOË SUTHERLAND, Ph.D. student in the School of Gatsby Room, Chancellor’s Centre, Wolfson English, University of St Andrews. College, University of Cambridge § Invited speaker on the panel ‘At the Delta: Belonging, Place, and Visions of Law and Social CMEMLL RESEARCH SEMINAR in conjunction Change’ at the Law and Society Association with the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar Annual Meeting 2016, New Orleans, Louisiana. T.B.A. (T.B.A.) T.B.C. SARAH WHITE, Ph.D. student in the School of Wednesday 30 November, 2016, 1pm History, University of St Andrews. Faculty of English, University of Cambridge § Invited speaker, Centre for English Legal History Seminar, University of Cambridge. CMEMLL READING GROUP

RACHEL E. HOLMES & ANDREW ZURCHER ANDREW ZURCHER, Fellow of English at Queens’ ‘Futures of Law and Literature (II)’ College, University of Cambridge. Monday 12 December, 2016, 4-5pm § Invited speaker, Centre for English Legal History Queens’ College, University of Cambridge Seminar, University of Cambridge.

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CMEMLL IS CHANGING CONTACT CMEMLL The Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and WEBSITE: http://cmemll.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk Literature has enjoyed five very successful years at St TWITTER: @CMEMLL Andrews, with countless reading groups, conferences, MEMBERSHIP workshops, and lectures. CMEMLL has members in departments of History, Under the joint leadership of Lorna Hutson (English) English, Law, and Modern Languages at universities and John Hudson (History) it has been a place for worldwide. All are welcome. To be listed as a member very fertile interdisciplinary discussion and or corresponding member, please contact us directly. development. We look forward to continuing this inter-disciplinary discussion once Lorna has taken up CMEMLL the Merton Chair of English Literature at Oxford in School of History, University of St Andrews the summer of 2016. St John’s House, 71 North Street, St Andrews, From the end of the academic year 2015-16, the St Fife, KY16 9QW Andrews Centre will become a collaborative forum Phone: +44 (0)1334 462682 Fax: +44 (0)1334 462655 between St Andrews, Oxford, and Cambridge, organised by John Hudson, Lorna Hutson, and Rachel Professor John Hudson, Organiser (St Andrews): Holmes, respectively, with Law and Literature events [email protected] continuing at St Andrews under the auspices of the Institute for Legal and Constitutional Research. Professor Lorna Hutson, Organiser (Oxford): [email protected]

John Hudson, Lorna Hutson, and Rachel E. Holmes Dr Rachel E. Holmes, Organiser (Cambridge): [email protected]