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History 142
Western Legal Tradition to 1500
Prof. Christopher Hill
Fall 2007
Background Material
 International Law Dictionary
Location: REF KZ 1161 .B54 1987
Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law
Location: REF KZ 1161 .P37 1986
Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Location: REF D 114 .D5 1982
Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages
Location: REF CB351 .M7813 1986
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Location: REF CB 361 .E52 1999
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Books
Use ALEX, the library catalog, to find books on your topic.
- Search topics by SUBJECT or KEYWORD
- Search on the following subject headings: Fifteenth Century, Fourteenth Century, and so forth.
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Review Articles
LexisNexis Academic
Use LexisNexis Academic to find LAW REVIEWS. Click on "Legal Research" on the right, then follow the onscreen instructions.
Annual Review of Political Science
Available from 1998 through June 2005 from Academic Search Premier.
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Journal Articles
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Scholarly journal articles on topics pertinent to 400-1700AD.
JSTOR
Full-text scholarly, multidisciplinary articles.
Academic Search Premier
Scholarly journal and popular magazine articles in all subject areas, many of which are available in full text online.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the scholarly journal literature in political science and international relations, law and public policy.
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Primary Resources
Use ALEX, the library catalog, to find primary resources in our library.
Use an ADVANCED SEARCH: Search for SOURCES in the subject field in one box, then add your topic as a keyword search in another.
Ancient Legal Texts
From Fordham University, this page links texts on the history of law in the ancient world.
Ancient Medieval and Renaissance Documents
The Avalon Project from Yale University is dedicated to providing access via the World Wide Web to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
British Legal History
Cambridge University Law School's links to primary sources, arranged chronologically.
Medieval Legal History
Also from Fordham University, the Medieval Sourcebook is part of the larger Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and brings together all texts on the history of law.
Roman Law Resources
Collection of links to legal resources, papyrology and epigraphy and individual sources
Select List of Primary Resources in Burke Library
- Diary of John Manningham, of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, barrister-at-law, 1602-1603.
COMPACT STACK DA 20 .C17 no.99
- English suits before the Parlement of Paris, 1420-1436 /
DA 20 .C172 ser.4 v.26
- The formation of the English common law : law and society in England from the Norman Conquest to Magna Carta /
KD 671 .H83 1996
- Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis; Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber Horn.
COMPACT STACK DA 25 .B5 no.12
- The Parliamentary history of England from the earliest period to the year 1803
COMPACT STACK J 301 H2
- [Sobornoe ulozhenie 1649. English & Russian] The Muscovite Law Code (Ulozhenie) of 1649 /
KM 46 .R85
- Sachsenspiegel. English. The Saxon mirror : a Sachsenspiegel of the fourteenth century /
KK 205.6 .S2313 1999
- Select cases in manorial courts 1250-1550 : property and family law
JN 102 .S46 v.114
- A survey of the Manor of Wye,
COMPACT STACK H 31 .C7 no.331
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Get Help
For assistance with this course, contact:
Kristin Strohmeyer
Reference Librarian/Coordinator of Instructional Services
Burke Library
859-4481
kstrohme@hamilton.edu
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(Reviewed: September 12, 2007)
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