Rechtsgeschiedenis Blog

How can one imagine to be fully aware of all major developments in a scholarly discipline? The fleet of websites, blogs and social media accounts relevant to your field can become almost too large. Using another metaphor, you might not be able to see the new trees in the forest! In December 2025 I bumped into to the results of a project which I certainly had spotted in 2023. How...

Some weeks ago I spotted an an online catalogue of an antiquarian book firm with among other items a most remarkable document, a rare Roman wooden tablet with an inventory for tutorship. Although...

The ocean of law is an image I like to evoke here time and again. When doing legal history there is also an ocean of history, of historical sources and research resources, both online and in print. It is seducing to picture a world where One Search Engine can find them for you easily! In this post I want to look at an online web directory in French for tracing resources for rese...

In view of the massive and seemingly neverending stream of scholarly publications librarians and scholars have developed tools to help you find relevant literature for your research. Modern titles of books and articles rightly avoid the lenght of some Early Modern book titles. Titles can be elusive, if only for different spellings and a different use of terms, not to mention the...

Legal history is a discipline with many facets. The plural legal histories is fully justified as a name for the study of vast territories in time, space, subjects and approaches. On my blog legal iconography has been a regular subject, and I am always happy to bring here projects, exhibitions or monographs to your attention. In this post I would like to look at the website