Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU The Medieval Globe Books Medieval Institute Publications 4-2017 Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe Elizabeth Lambourn De Montfort University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_globe Part of the European History Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Medieval History Commons, and the Medieval Studies Commons Recommended Citation Lambourn, Elizabeth, "Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe" (2017). The Medieval Globe Books. 2. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_globe/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Medieval Institute Publications at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Medieval Globe Books by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. LEGAL ENCOUNTERS ON THE MEDIEVAL GLOBE THE MEDIEVAL GLOBE The Medieval Globe provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars of all world areas by focusing on convergence, movement, and interdependence. Con need not encompass the globe in any territorial sense. Rather, TMG advan ces a tributions to a global understanding of the medieval period (broadly defined) new theory and praxis of medieval studies by bringing into view phenomena that have been rendered practically or conceptually invisible by anachronistic bound aries, categories, and expectations. TMG also broadens discussion of the ways that medieval processes inform the global present and shape visions