Prof Caroline Humfress

Prof Caroline Humfress

Head of School

Professor in Medieval History

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2893
Email
ch226@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location
Mediaeval History, 71 South Street
Office hours
ME3238 Tuesday 4pm to 5pm, LC5001 Tuesday 12pm to 1pm, or by appointment.

 

Teaching

Undergraduate:

Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity (Hons)

Holy Lives in Late Antiquity (Hons)

The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe 400 - 1000 (Sub-Hons)

Postgraduate:

The Idea of Law (MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies)

Comparative Studies in Legal History (MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies)

Research areas

Caroline Humfress is Professor of Medieval History, a Co-Director of the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research and the Founding / Current Convenor of the MLitt in Legal and Constitutional Studies. She has published widely on Ancient, Late Antique and Early Medieval law and religion, placing historical questions in dialogue with legal, anthropological and sociological concepts and approaches.

Most recently she has edited The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024): the first project of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history, working with an international team of experts across the fields of Ancient Greek, Roman, Indo-European, Near-Eastern and Chinese law. She is currently completing a monograph for Oxford University Press (Laws' Empire. Multilegalism in Late Antiquity), in addition to working on ancient constitutionalism and ideas of legal ordering in Late Antiquity and beyond. 

PhD supervision

  • Niels Arends
  • Sophie Kniaz
  • Shannon Mcmillan
  • Freja Stamper
  • Chao Xiao

Selected publications

  • Humfress, C. (Editor), Ibbetson, D. (Editor) & Olivelle, P. (Editor), May 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 744 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Open access
    Humfress, C., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 598-614 17 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Wells, B., Bickart, N., Davis, D., Harris, E., Humfress, C., MacCormack, G., Osborne, R. & Vandorpe, K., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 231-302 72 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Open access
    Humfress, C., May 2024, In: Law and History Review. 42, 2, p. 155 - 168 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Olivelle, P., Gagarin, M., Humfress, C., MacCormack, G., Manning, J. G. & Wells, B., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 303-375 73 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Mantovani, D., Caldwell, E., Démare-Lafont, S., Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D., MacCormack, G., Olivelle, P., Osborne, R., Pitchard, R., Tooman, W. A. & Wells, B., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 73-145 73 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. xi-xv 5 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Lubin, T., Bryen, A., Démare-Lafont, S., Gagarin, M., Humfress, C., MacCormack, G. & Manning, J. G., May 2024, Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Humfress, C., Ibbetson, D. & Olivelle, P. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 376-445

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Open access
    Humfress, C., 31 Aug 2023, Political thought, time, and history. Robertson, J. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 36-53 18 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Humfress, C., 17 Feb 2022, The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church. Louth, A. (ed.). 4th ed. Oxford: British Academy (Oxford University Press), Vol. 1. p. 1057 1 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary