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Reading the Legal Record like a Physician

Posted by Sara M. Butler; 19 May 2017. Social historians have long recognized the value of the legal record to gain entrance into the lives of the average medieval Joe and Joanna. For most medieval men...

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Persons under the Law? Medieval Animal Rights

Posted by Sara M. Butler; 19 February 2018. Should animals be seen as persons under the law? At first glance this question may seem preposterous, but many animal rights activists today see that...

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Doubt, Decency, and the History of English Witchcraft

Posted by Krista J. Kesselring, 26 July 2022. Some myths about the past float entirely free of the evidence, but some have just enough grounding in the documentary record to be particularly...

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