Sam Worby . Law and Kinship in Thirteenth‐Century England . (Studies in History: New Series.) Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press. 2010. Pp. 198. $95.00.
Linda E. Mitchell
Sam Worby has written a short, useful book focusing on the connections between common and canon law definitions of kinship after Fourth Lateran Council (1215), which redefined proscribed lines consanguinity (blood relation) affinity (relation through marriage) from seven to four. In five chapters, plus introduction conclusion, unpacks ways in is defined both legal systems; how it discussed by theorists, theologians, jurists; enacted litigation records thirteenth‐century courts England. Four appendixes provide Latin transcriptions four treatises extensively text, but that have no modern editions: Raymón Penyafort's Quia tractare intendimus, anonymous Sciendum est, Quibus modis, Triplex est. The entire volume comprises fewer than two hundred pages: concise indeed. principle conceit the...
The American Historical Review