Description: Drawing on a quantitative analysis of hundreds of printed and archival sources from 77 towns, The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval England is the first cross-regional investigation into the history of urban customs since Mary Bateson's seminal, two-volume work Borough Customs (1904-1906).
Review Quotes: "The Making of Urban Customary Law is a remarkable feat. It grapples with multiple, inconsistent, and dense legal traditions that shifted over time and continued to change into the eighteenth century. ...It provides researchers a methodological framework and a critical guide to source materials to incorporate urban custom into broad studies of medieval society." -- Samantha Sagui, American Historical Review