#  Collaborative Bibliography 

 



Achinstein, Sharon. “Hugo Grotius and Marriage’s Global Past: Conjugal Thinking in Early Modern Political Thought,” Journal of the History of Ideas 81, no. 2 (2020): 195–215.

Akhimie, Patricia. *Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World.* New York: Routledge, 2018.

Asad, Talal. *Genealogies of Religion* (Johns Hopkins, 1993).

Belmessous, Saliha. *Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600–1900* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Bennett, Judith, "Compulsory Service in Late Medieval England," *Past &amp; Present* 209 (November, 2010), 7–51.

Blumenthal, Debra. *Enemies and Familiars: Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia*. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.

Brewer, Holly. “Age of Reason? Children, Testimony, and Consent in Early America.” In *The Many Legalities of Early America*, edited by Christopher L. Tomlins and Bruce H. Mann, 293–332. Chapel Hill, NC: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Brewer, Holly, *By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority* (2005).

Buhrer, Eliza, “Disability and Consent in Medieval Law,” *Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies* 10:3 (2019), 344–356.

Carlebach, Elisheva, *Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500–1750.* New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Chakravarty, Urvashi. *Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England.* Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.

Davis, Kathleen. Periodization and Sovereignty (University of Pennsylvania, 2008).

Decock, W., *Theologians and Contract Law: The Moral Transformation of the Ius Commune*, Leiden/Boston, Brill/Nijhoff, 2013.

De Vito, Christian G., Juliane Schiel, and Matthias van Rossum. “From Bondage to Precariousness? New Perspectives on Labor and Social History.” Journal of Social History 54, no. 2 (November 2020): 644–62. <https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shz057>.

Donahue Jr., Charles, *Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Dunn, Caroline, *Stolen Women in Medieval England: Rape, Abduction and Adultery, 1100-1500* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Edwards, Suzanne M. *The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature* (Palgrave, 2016).

Essay cluster forthcoming in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): "Historicizing Consent: Bodies, Wills, Desires," co-edited by Carissa Harris and Fiona Somerset (essays and responses by Micah James Goodrich, Eliza Buhrer, Suzanne Edwards, Alice Raw, Lucia Akard, Lynn Shutters, Rachel Moss, Samantha Katz Seal, Sarah Baechle, Sara V. Torres, Leah Schwebel, Elizabeth Fowler, Jennifer Alberghini).

García-Arenal Rodríguez, Mercedes, and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan (eds.), *Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam* (Leiden: Brill, 2020).

Glover, Jeffrey. *Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604–1664*. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. <https://muse.jhu.edu/book/29457/>.

Gordley, J., *The Philosophical Origins of Contract Law*, Oxford, Clarendon, 1991.

Habib, Imtiaz, *Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible.* Abingdon: Ashgate, 2008.

Hadot, Pierre. *Philosophy as a Way of Life.* Wiley-Blackwell, 1981.

Harris, Carissa M. “‘A drunken cunt hath no porter’: Medieval Histories of Intoxication and Consent.” Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 54.2 (April 2019): 109-34.

Helmholz, R. H., *Marriage Litigation in Medieval England* (Cambridge, 1975).

Herzig, Tamar. *A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy*. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019.

Herzog, Tamar. *A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millennia.* Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Herzog, Tamar. *Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas.* Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.

Herzog, Tamar. “Muslim and Jewish Converts in the Early Modern Hispanic World.” In *Katalin Rac and Lenny Urena Valerio* eds., *The Global and the Local in Jewish Experience in the Americas: Old and New Narratives across Five Centuries.* Gainesville: University of Florida Press (forthcoming).

Hibbitts, Bernard J. “Coming to Our Senses: Communication and Legal Expression in Performance Cultures.” *Emory Law Journal* 41, no. 4 (1992): 873-960.

Höpfl, Harro and Martyn P. Thompson. “The History of Contract as a Motif in Political Thought,” *The American Historical Review* 84, no. 4 (1979): 919–44.

Kahn, Victoria. *The Trouble with Literature* (Oxford, 2020).

Kahn, Victoria. *Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640–1674*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Kahn, Victoria. “Margaret Cavendish and the Romance of Contract.” *Renaissance Quarterly* 50, no. 2 (1997): 526–66. <https://doi.org/10.2307/3039189>.

Kamali, Elizabeth Papp. *Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England.* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Karas, Ruth Maxo and Shannon McSheffrey, “Making Marriage,” in *Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London* (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 17-47.

Keane, Webb. *Christian Moderns* (University of California, 2007).

Kesselring, K. J., ["Consent and coercion, force and fraud: marriages in Star Chamber"](/file_url/122) in *Star Chamber Matters: An Early Modern Court and Its Records*, ed. K. Kesselring and N. Mears (London, 2021), pp. 97–114.

Kishlanksy, M. A., *Parliamentary Selection: Social and Political Choice in Early Modern England* (Cambridge, 1986).

Luscombe, D. E., ed. and trans. *Peter Abelard’s* Ethics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

Lyons, Scott Richard. *X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent.* Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

MacCormack, Sabine G. *Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity* (Berkeley, 1981).

Monahan, Arthur P. *Consent, Coercion, Limit: the Medieval Origins of Parliamentary Democracy* (Montreal, 1987).

Morgan, Jennifer L., *Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery.* Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Newman, Simon P. *A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic.* Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Nirenberg, David, ["Epilogue: Conversion and the Force of History,"](https://www.academia.edu/41269790/David_Nirenberg_Epilogue_Conversion_and_the_Force_of_History_in_Mercedes_Garc%C3%ADa_Arenal_and_Yonatan_Glazer_Eytan_eds_Forced_Conversion_in_Christianity_Judaism_and_Islam_Coercion_and_Faith_in_Premodern_Iberia_and_Beyond_Leiden_Brill_2019_386_403) in *Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam*," eds. Mercedes García-Arenal Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 386–403.

Peters, Julie Stone. “Legal Performance Good and Bad.” Law, Culture and the Humanities 4, no. 2 (2008): 179–200.

Poutrin, Isabelle. “Assessing Consent through External Signs: Three Cases of Madness, Repulsion and Love before the Tribunal of the Roman Rota (1579–1619).” *Culture &amp; History Digital Journal* 6, no. 2 (November 2017).

Reynolds, Philip L. and John Witte, Jr., eds., *To Have and To Hold: Marriage and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600* (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Rio, Alice, "Self-sale and voluntary entry into unfreedom, 300-1100," *Journal of Social History* 45:3 (2012), 661–85.

Rudolph, Julia, “Rape and Resistance: Women and Consent in Seventeenth-Century English Legal and Political Thought,” Journal of British Studies, 39.2 (2000), 157–84.

Schiel, Julianne, "The Ragusan 'Maids of All Work'. Shifting Labor Relations in the Late Medieval Adriatic Sea Region," *Journal of Global Slavery 5* (2020), 139–169.

Seabourne, Gwen, *Imprisoning Medieval Women: The Non-Judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, c. 1170–1509* (2011). \[Esp. ch. 7 – for medieval legal notions (high and low, jurists’ and jurors’) of consent as it applied to marriage, raptus, and more.\]

Simpson, A. W. B., *A History of the Common Law of Contract: The Rise of the Action of Assumpsit* (Oxford, 1975).

Somerset, Fiona. “Assent / Consent,”in *A New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer* , ed. Matthew W. Irvin, Stephanie Batkie, and Lynn Shutters (Amsterdam: ARC/Amsterdam University Press, 2021).

Sommers, Roseanna, ["Commonsense Consent,"](/file_url/123) 129 *Yale Law Journal* 2232 (2020).

Steinfeld, Robert J. The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350–1870. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara. *The Emperor's Old Clothes: Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire*, trans. Thomas Dunlap (New York, 2015).

Tycko, Sonia. “Bound and Filed: A Seventeenth-Century Service Indenture from a Scattered Archive.” *Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal* 19, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 166–90. <https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780967>.

Tycko, Sonia. “The Legality of Prisoner of War Labour in England, 1648–1655.” *Past &amp; Present* 246, no. 1 (February 2020): 35–68. <https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz031>.

Witte, Jr., John. *Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties.* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Witte, Jr., John. *The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy.* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Zimmermann, R.. *The Law of Obligations: Roman Foundations of the Civilian Tradition.* Cape Town, Juta, 1990.