Compulsory readings

BELLOMO, M., The Common legal past of Europe (1000-1800), Catholic University Press, (Washington, D.C., 1995).

PENNINGTON , K., “Learned Law, Droit Savant, Gelehrtes Recht: The Tyranny of a Concept”, in Rivista internazionale di diritto comune 5 (1994) 197-209.

Recommended readings

PENNINGTON , K., “Roman and Secular Law in the Middle Ages”, in Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide, edd. F.A.C. Mantello and A.G. Rigg (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America, 1996) 254-266

GROSSI, P., A History of European law, Wiley-Blackwell, (Chichester, 2010).

 

Online resources

Personal webpage professor Pennington, Catholic University of America

European Legal Traditions, Sebastian Golla, Freie Universitat Berlin.

Legal History blog

Legal history with a Dutch view