Prof Caroline Humfress

Professor in Medieval History

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 462893

Email

ch226@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 11

Location

Mediaeval History, 71 South Street

Office hours

Thursday 9am to 10am ( ME3238), Friday 10am to 11am ( LC5001)

Teaching

Undergraduate Hons Courses:

Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/undergrad/modules/med/ME3237.htm)

Holy Lives in Late Antiquity (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/undergrad/modules/med/ME3238.htm)

Postgraduate teaching:

MLitt in Legal and Constitutional Studies, from 2016/17 (http://ilcr.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/mlitt/)

MLitt in Intellectual History (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/postgrad/taughtpostgrad/intellectualhistory.html)

Research areas

Caroline Humfress is Director of the University of St Andrews' Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research (http://ilcr.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/) and Postgraduate Convenor of the MLitt in Legal and Constitutional Studies (http://ilcr.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/mlitt/).

She has published widely on the history of Late Antiquity (c.200-c.600AD) and is currently finishing a monograph for Oxford University Press: Multi-legalism in Late Antiquity. She has also published on the history of empires, recently co-editing a volume on Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors, in addition to researching early Christian history and ecclesiastical law. Some of her recent research also explores contemporary approaches to law and legal history within the disciplines of anthropology and sociology.

Recent international research projects include the European Commission-funded project Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom and The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law: the first project of its kind in the field of Comparative Ancient Legal History, working with an international team of scholars specialising in the fields of Ancient Greek, Roman, Indo-European, Near-Eastern and Chinese Law.

PhD supervision

• Niels Arends
• Ingrid Ivarsen
• Per Rolandsson
• Misty Ducasse

Selected publications

• 'Cherchez la femme!' Heresy and law in late antiquity

  Humfress, C., 6 Aug 2019, (Accepted/In press) Studies in Church History. Cambridge University Press, (Studies in Church History).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• A new legal cosmos: late Roman lawyers and the early medieval church

  Humfress, C., 9 Feb 2018, The Medieval World. Linehan, P., Nelson, J. L. & Costambeys, M. (eds.). 2nd ed. Routledge, (Routledge Worlds).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Gift-giving and inheritance strategies in late Roman law and legal practice

  Humfress, C., 7 Jun 2017, Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today. Rønning, O-A., Møller Sigh, H. & Vogt, H. (eds.). Routledge, (Routledge Studies in Cultural History).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

  Humphries, M., Nicholson O., and team of 'subject editors', 2017, Oxford University Press.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Ordering divine knowledge in late Roman legal discourse

  Humfress, C., Apr 2016, In : COLLeGIUM. 20, p. 160-176

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Patristic sources

  Humfress, C., Apr 2015, The Cambridge companion to Roman law . Johnston, D. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 97-118 (Cambridge companions to the ancient world).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Telling Stories about (Roman) Law: Rules and Concepts in Legal Discourse

  Humfress, C., 2015, Legalism: Rules and Categories. Dresch, P. & Scheele, J. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 79-104

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Being Christian in late antiquity: a festschrift for Gillian Clark

  Humfress, C., Harrison, C. & Sandwell, B., 30 Jan 2014, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 316 p.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• Institutionalization between theory and practice: Comparative approaches to medieval Islamic and late Roman law

  Humfress, C., 4 Sep 2014, Diverging Paths?: The Shapes of Power and Institutions in Medieval Christendom and Islam. Hudson, J. & Rodriguez, A. (eds.). Brill, p. 16-29 (The Medieval Mediterranean; vol. 101).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Law and legal culture in the age of Attila

  Humfress, C., Nov 2014, The Cambridge companion to the age of Attila . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 140-155 (Cambridge companions to the ancient world).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

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