Making Legal History: Approaches and Methodologies

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Contents
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1 Introduction
2 Reflections on ‘doing’ legal history
3 Editing law reports and doing legal history: compatible or incompatible projects?
4 The indispensability of manuscript case notes to eighteenth-century barristers and judges
5 Judging judges: the reputations of nineteenth-century judges and their sources
6 Benefits and barriers: the making of Victorian legal history
7 Methodology in legal history: from the history of free speech to the role of history in transatlantic legal thought
8 The methodological debates in German-speaking Europe (1960–1990)
9 Exploring the law in medieval minds: the duty of the legal historian to write the books of non-written law
10 Comparative legal history: a methodology
11 ‘They put to the torture all the ancient monuments’: reflections on making eighteenth-century Irish legal history
12 The politics of historiography and the taxonomies of the colonial past: law, history and the tribes
13 Lay legal history
14 Antiquarianism and legal history
15 Re-examining King John and Magna Carta: reflections on reasons, methodology and methods
16 Visual sources: mirror of justice or ‘through a glass darkly’?
17 Sanctity, superstition and the death of Sarah Jacob
Index