'Close to the sources: Musings around a new enriched handbook for Europe’s medieval legal history', a review of the
#medieval #legalhistory hybrid handbook "Lire le droit" and the FONTES project,
https://rechtsgeschiedenis.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/close-to-the-sources-musings-around-a-new-enriched-handbook-for-europes-medieval-legal-history/'Legal iconography through the lens of art in Catalonia', a post on a research project where art history and
#legalhistory meet each other,
https://rechtsgeschiedenis.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/legal-iconography-through-the-lens-of-art-in-catalonia/'The East Asia slave trade in Dutch archival records', a post on projects of the IISH and the Huygens Institute,
https://rechtsgeschiedenis.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/the-east-asia-slave-trade-in-dutch-archival-records/
The East Asia slave trade in Dutch archival records
Two years ago I mentioned in a post triggered to some extent by the death of Natalie Zemon Davis the role of the Dutch state in the history of Early Modern slavery and slave trade. I explained I wa…
An archival story: Early Modern English land grants in an American collection
Very often it is only logical to search for particular documents at the most obvious institutions where such archival records are usually preserved. In this post an archival collection with Early M…
Digital legal history in development: Initiatives in Paris and Amsterdam
January is already three weeks old, a new year has started for legal historians, too! Digital legal history is a subject appearing here regularly. In this post reflection aboiut the use of digital …
