The Moral World of the Law

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction Peter Coss; 2. The language of law in classical Athens S. C. Todd; 3. The autonomy of Roman law Andrew D. E. Lewis; 4. Local participation and legal ritual in early medieval law courts Wendy Davies; 5. Due process versus the maintenance of order in European law: the contribution of the ius commune Paul Hyams; 6. Inside the courtroom: lawyers, litigants and justices in England in the later middle ages Paul Brand; 7. 'Nemo mortalis cognitus vivit in evo': moral and legal conflicts in a Florentine inheritance case of 1442 Thomas Kuehn; 8. Law, litigants and the construction of 'honour': slander suits in early modern England Martin Ingram; 9. Story-telling and the social imagery of religious conflict in nineteenth-century French law courts Caroline Ford; 10. 'Their idea of justice is so peculiar': Southern Rhodesia 1890–1910 Diana Jeater; 11. Kenyatta's trials: breaking and making an African nationalist John Lonsdale; 12. Conclusion Chris Wickham; Index.