Prof John Hudson
Bishop Wardlaw Professor
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 2888
- jghh@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Location
- Mediaeval History, 71 South Street
- Office hours
- Tuesday 9am to 10am or by appointment.
Research areas
Ninth to thirteenth-century England and France, in particular the fields of law, lordship, and literature. Teaching also covers the intellectual and cultural history of this period. Further areas of specialisation are historical writing, late nineteenth-century study of mediaeval England, and the relationship between legal history and legal practice.
PhD supervision
- Kim Thao Le
- Poppy Kershaw
- Alexander Lombardo
Selected publications
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Open access
Common law, civil law, and colonial law: essays in comparative legal history from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries
Eves, W. (Editor), Hudson, J. (Editor), Ivarsen, I. F. (Editor) & White, S. B. (Editor), 1 Apr 2021, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 338 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
Introduction: situating, researching, and writing comparative legal history
Hudson, J. & Eves, W., Apr 2021, Common law, civil law, and colonial law: essays in comparative legal history from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Eves, W., Hudson, J., Ivarsen, I. & White, S. B. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 1-24 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Reading terminology in the sources for the early Common Law: seisin, simple and not so simple
Hudson, J., May 2019, English legal history and its sources: Essays in honour of Sir John Baker. Ibbetson, D., Jones, N. & Ramsay, N. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 79-99Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Review of Law and Society in Later Medieval England and Ireland: Essays in Honour of Paul Brand, ed. by Travis R. Baker (London: Routledge, 2018)
Hudson, J., 2019, In: English Historical Review. 134, 571, p. 1524-1526 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Miller(ed) in St Andrews
Knight, K.-J. & Hudson, J. G. H., 2018, Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of William Ian Miller. Gilbert, K. & White, S. (eds.). Leiden : Brill, p. 19-22 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Stringer's Saga: Njal and the Wire
Hudson, J. G. H. & West, M., May 2018, Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of William Ian Miller. Gilbert, K. & White, S. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 271-295 25 p. (Medieval Law and its Practice).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Emotions in the early common law (c. 1166–1215)
Hudson, J., 2017, In: Journal of Legal History. 38, 2, p. 130-154 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The formation of the English common law: law and society in England from King Alfred to Magna Carta
Hudson, J., 8 Aug 2017, 2nd ed. Abingdon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 234 p. (The medieval world)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The place of Henry I in English legal history
Hudson, J. G. H., 1 Oct 2017, In: Haskins Society Journal. 28, p. 63-81Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review