Prof John Hudson

Bishop Wardlaw Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2888

Email

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

• 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

• 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

• 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. 79-99

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

• 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

• The Balliol Glanvill

  Hudson, J., 2019

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The place of Henry I in English legal history

  Hudson, J. G. H., 1 Oct 2017, In: Haskins Society Journal. 28, p. 63-81

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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