Medievalists.net » De Natura Legis Naturae http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:51:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Judging Female Judges: Sir John Fortescue’s Vision of Women as Judges in De Natura Legis Naturae http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/14/judging-female-judges-sir-john-fortescues-vision-of-women-as-judges-in-de-natura-legis-naturae/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/14/judging-female-judges-sir-john-fortescues-vision-of-women-as-judges-in-de-natura-legis-naturae/#comments Thu, 14 Nov 2013 23:54:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=44883 Judging Female Judges: Sir John Fortescue’s Vision of Women as Judges in De Natura Legis Naturae  Emma Hawkes Limina, Volume 8, (2002) Abstract The fifteenth-century English legal commentary, De Natura Legis Naturae, is probably the most obscure of Sir John Fortescue’s renowned writings. Fortescue’s text examines female authority more explicitly than his other writings, there has, […]

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