Archive: November 2021 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Nathan Dorn; (Year) 2021; (Month) November

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

A Civil Body Politic: The Mayflower Compact and 17th-Century Corporations

November 24, 2021

Last year, to mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower Compact, I wrote a post on this blog about the Compact’s origins and legacy in early American history. In that post, I wrote that the Compact served as a place-holder to acknowledge that the colonists were operating outside the region of North America that their …

Posted in: Collections, Law Library

New Acquisition: 15th-Century Manuscript on the Laws of War for Knights

November 15, 2021

Posted by: Nathan Dorn

A few months ago, I highlighted on this blog two medieval manuscripts that the Law Library recently acquired. In this post, I would like to announce the acquisition of another new addition to the Law Library’s growing collection of medieval manuscripts, a remarkable 15th-century manuscript of L’Arbre des Batailles (The Tree of Battles) by the …

Posted in: Collections, Law Library

Refined by: (Author) Nathan Dorn; (Year) 2021; (Month) November