Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England

About the author

Esther Liberman Cuenca received her PhD in History from Fordham University and is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria in Victoria, Texas. She is an editor of the undergraduate textbook, Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World: An Introduction through Film (Fordham Press, 2025), and her essays have appeared in Urban History, The Paris Review, Continuity and Change, and Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques. She has received fellowships and awards from the Mellon Foundation, Medieval Academy of America, and American Philosophical Society. In 2022/23, she was a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Summary

Drawing on a quantitative analysis of hundreds of printed and archival sources from 77 towns, The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval England is the first cross-regional investigation into the history of urban customs since Mary Bateson's seminal, two-volume work Borough Customs (1904-1906).

Product details

• Authors: Esther Liberman Cuenca, Esther Liberman (Assistant Professor of Hi Cuenca
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2025
• EAN: 9780198916772
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891677-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LAW / Civil Law, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Systems of law: civil codes / civil law, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Civil codes / Civil law