Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction to "Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe" by Elizabeth Lambourn
The Future of Aztec Law by Jerome A. Offner
Land and Tenure in Early Colonial Peru: Individualizing the Sapci, "That Which is Common to All" by Susan Elizabeth Ramírez
The Edict of King Gälawdéwos against the Illegal Slave Trade in Christians: Ethiopia, 1548 by Habtamu Mengistie Tegegne
Mutilation and the Law in Early Medieval Europe and India: A Comparative Study by Patricia Skinner
Common Threads: A Reappraisal of Medieval European Sumptuary Law by Laurel Ann Wilson
Toward a History of Documents in Medieval India: The Encounter of Scholasticism and Regional Law in the Smṛticandrikā by Donald R. Davis, Jr.
Chinese Porcelain and the Material Taxonomies of Medieval Rabbinic Law: Encounters with Disruptive Substances in Twelfth-Century Yemen by Elizabeth Lambourn and Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman

About the Author

Elizabeth Lambourn is Reader in South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. Her research is particularly focused on the identification and study of new material archives and on Indian Ocean materialities. Carol Symes is the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the history of documentary practices and communication media in medieval Europe.