Prof Caroline Humfress
Deputy Head of School
Professor in Medieval History
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 2893
- 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
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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/Report › Book
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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 proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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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 proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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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 proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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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 proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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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 proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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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. 376-445Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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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 journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 266-287Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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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 proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review