Dr Leslie Dodd's Outputs (3)

Kinship, conflict and unity among Roman elites in post-Roman Gaul: The contrasting experiences of Caesarius and Avitus (2016)
Book Chapter
Dodd, L. (2016). Kinship, conflict and unity among Roman elites in post-Roman Gaul: The contrasting experiences of Caesarius and Avitus. In Official power and local elites in the Roman provinces (168-187). Routledge

The 5th century saw the end of Roman imperial power in the West. Academic debate continues about whether the Empire collapsed or transformed and survived in the form of the barbarian successor states in Gaul, Italy and Spain.1 For the purposes of thi... Read More about Kinship, conflict and unity among Roman elites in post-Roman Gaul: The contrasting experiences of Caesarius and Avitus.

The legal writings of Thomas Craig (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dodd, L. (2016, June). The legal writings of Thomas Craig. Presented at Legal Literature in Sixteenth-Century Scotland, University of Aberdeen

This paper deals with the author's ongoing work on the legal writings of Thomas Craig and explores some of the issues that have arisen, particularly with respect to Craig's cultural context and literary influences.

Thomas Craig’s Aetiology of Law and Society: Literary Dependence and Independence in theJus Feudale (2016)
Journal Article
Dodd, L. (2016). Thomas Craig’s Aetiology of Law and Society: Literary Dependence and Independence in theJus Feudale. Journal of Legal History, 37(2), 121-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440365.2016.1191587

While Craig's relationship to, and emergence from, the French legal humanist tradition has always been widely recognized, this paper constitutes a deeper analysis of the specific threads connecting Craig to the humanist literature of the sixteenth ce... Read More about Thomas Craig’s Aetiology of Law and Society: Literary Dependence and Independence in theJus Feudale.