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

• Poppy Kershaw
• Alexander Lombardo

Selected publications

• Justice, power, and legitimation

  Hudson, J., 1 Jan 2024, Conflict, language, and social practice in medieval societies: selected essays of Isabel Alfonso, with commentaries. Monge, J. E., Castro, A. C. & Pérez-Alfaro, C. J. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 87-92 6 p. (Medieval countryside; vol. 24).

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

• Susan Reynolds

  Hudson, J., 2024, Oxford dictionary of national biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press

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

• Open access

  Reynolds, Susan, 1929-2021

  d'Avray, D. L. & Hudson, J., 28 Feb 2022, In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. 20, p. 139–164 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Glanvill: law, language, and identity

  Hudson, J., 1 Oct 2021, Lives, identities and histories in the central Middle Ages. Barrau, J. & Bates, D. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 264-281 18 p.

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

• 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

• 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 Balliol Glanvill

  Hudson, J., 2019

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

 

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