Prof Caroline Humfress

Prof Caroline Humfress

Deputy Head of School

Professor in Medieval History

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2893
Email
ch226@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location
Mediaeval History, 71 South Street
Office hours
ME3238 Tuesday 4pm to 5pm, LC5001 Tuesday 12pm to 1pm, or by appointment.

 

Teaching

Undergraduate:

Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity (Hons)

Holy Lives in Late Antiquity (Hons)

The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe 400 - 1000 (Sub-Hons)

Postgraduate:

The Idea of Law (MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies)

Comparative Studies in Legal History (MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies)

Research areas

Caroline Humfress is Professor of Medieval History, a Co-Director of the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research and the Founding / Current Convenor of the MLitt in Legal and Constitutional Studies. She has published widely on Ancient, Late Antique and Early Medieval law and religion, placing historical questions in dialogue with legal, anthropological and sociological concepts and approaches.

Most recently she has edited The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024): the first project of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history, working with an international team of experts across the fields of Ancient Greek, Roman, Indo-European, Near-Eastern and Chinese law. She is currently completing a monograph for Oxford University Press (Laws' Empire. Multilegalism in Late Antiquity), in addition to working on ancient constitutionalism and ideas of legal ordering in Late Antiquity and beyond. 

PhD supervision

  • Meghan Dulsky
  • Chao Xiao
  • Sophie Kniaz
  • Freja Stamper
  • Shannon Mcmillan
  • Niels Arends

Selected publications

  • Cambridge comparative history of ancient law

    Humfress, C. (Editor), Ibbetson, D. (Editor) & Olivelle, P. (Editor), May 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 744 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  • Conclusion

    Humfress, C., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 598-614 17 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • Law and religion

    Wells, B., Bickart, N., Davis, D., Harris, E., Humfress, C., MacCormack, G., Osborne, R. & Vandorpe, K., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 231-302 72 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • Legal procedure

    Olivelle, P., Gagarin, M., Humfress, C., MacCormack, G., Manning, J. G. & Wells, B., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 303-375 73 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • Legal science

    Mantovani, D., Caldwell, E., Démare-Lafont, S., Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D., MacCormack, G., Olivelle, P., Osborne, R., Pitchard, R., Tooman, W. A. & Wells, B., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 73-145 73 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • Preface: Cambridge comparative history of ancient law, a user’s guide

    Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. xi-xv 5 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • Status and family

    Lubin, T., Bryen, A., Démare-Lafont, S., Gagarin, M., Humfress, C., MacCormack, G. & Manning, J. G., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 376-445

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • Open access

    Legal pluralism’s other: mythologizing modern law

    Humfress, C., 9 Jun 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Law and History Review. FirstView, 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access

    Law, bureaucracy and the practice of government and rule

    Humfress, C., 31 Mar 2021, The Oxford World History of Empire. Bang, P., Bayly, C. & Scheidel, W. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, Vol. I. p. 266-287

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • Open access

    Out of time? Eternity, christology and Justinianic law

    Humfress, C., 31 Aug 2023, Political thought, time, and history. Robertson, J. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 36-53 18 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

 

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