I would like to thank Faculty Lounge for letting me blog here for a time. My first post deals with the first book on my summer reading list: The Laws of Late Medieval Italy by Mario Ascheri. Though it was released in 2000 in Italian, the English translation became available last year by Brill Press. It is written for someone generally unfamiliar with the late middle ages, providing details concerning the political, legal, religious, and intellectual currents of the time. Ascheri does a wonderful job engaging the reader, providing useful footnotes for further study. Many of the legal terms and forms (e.g., notatires) we still use today are derived from this era in legal history, with this book providing a concise means to access that material. I will be publishing a more thorough book review in the Sixteenth Century Journal later this year.
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