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English constitutional and legal institutions in the work of Freeman and Stubbs, which was to be challenged by early twentieth-century academic historians.109 Maine’s associations with the legal historians Paul Vinogradoff and Frederick Pollock, who developed socio-historical approaches to medieval law and institutions, are one indication of that link, helping to shift the emphasis of medieval studies away from narratives of constitutional ‘progress’ to one concerned with detailed analysis and criticism. Two other direct types of association between empire and
experiences of travel in lectures on Asian and world history, but that experience allowed her to add comparative perspectives to her work on medieval European history. Significantly for this discussion, anthropological work contributed to the decline of arguments for the ‘Saxon’ or ‘Germanic’ character of English constitutional and legal institutions found in the work of Freeman and Stubbs, now being challenged by academic historians.100 Maine’s connections to the historians Paul Vinogradoff and Frederick Pollock, who developed socio-historical approaches to medieval law
. 183–204. 12 Hunnisett, Coroner , pp. 19–25, 29–34. 13 25 Edward III st. 2, c. 7; 36 Edward III st. 1, c. 12 ( SR , vol. 1, pp. 313, 374). 14 Musson, Medieval Law , pp
any medieval law codes were comprehensive. Furthermore, we should note that the first assize expressly confirms ‘the usages, customs and laws’ already existing among the different peoples of the kingdom, provided these did not contravene this new royal law. So we should view this royal legislation as being intended as a supplement to the law already present: that of the Lombard kings, French customary
taken. 11 ‘Originators of heresy’ meaning originators of particular heresies, as Mani of Manichaeism. 12 Compurgators, used extensively in medieval law, were asked to attest that they believed the accused to have sworn truly, rather than attesting directly on the facts of the matter themselves. However, the first clause here suggests that, in the case of heresy, there was an element of factual attestation. 13 Allusion to the stipulation