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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
We at In Custodia Legis are sensitive to the fact that some of our readers may be disappointed that the Mayan Apocalypse of 2012, predicted for today, has turned out to be a bust. In order to soothe your nerves, we thought it would be courteous to invite you to look at a couple of scenes …
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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
How many times have you been stumbling through the dicey Latin of a fifteenth century legal treatise only to stop and wonder what sort of person was behind that pretentious turn of phrase that you just couldn’t interpret? Well, now you can catch a glimpse of the greatest legal authors of the Middle Ages and Renaissance for …
Posted in: Collections, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
After Tariq and Clare posted earlier this week on Sedition Law in England and India, I found myself thinking about revolutions. Naturally the first thing that occurred to me was that today is the anniversary of one of the great events of the French Revolution, the March on Versailles. You can see a contemporary account …
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