1 Introduction&PETER COSS 1
2 The language of law in Classical Athens&S.C.TODD 17
3 The autonomy of Roman law&ANDREW D.E.LEWIS 37
4 Local participation and legal ritual in early medieval law courts&WENDY DAVIES 48
5 Due process versus the maintenance of order in European law：the contribution of the ius commune&PAUL HYAMS 62
6 Inside the courtroom： lawyers， litigants and justices in England in the later middle ages&PAUL BRAND 91
7 ‘Nemo mortalis cognitus vivit in evo’： moral and legal conflicts in a Florentine inheritance case of 1442&THOMAS KUEHN 113
8 Law， litigants and the construction of ‘honour’： slander suits in early modern England&MARTIN INGRAM 134
9 Story-telling and the social imagery of religious conflict in nineteenth-century French law courts&CAROLINE FORD 161
10 ‘Their idea of justice is so peculiar’： Southern Rhodesia 1890-1910&DIANA JEATER 178
11 Kenyatta’s trials： breaking and making an African nationalist&JOHN LONSDALE 196
12 Conclusion&CHRIS WICKHAM 240
Index 250