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Judging Female Judges: Sir John Fortescue’s Vision of Women as Judges in De Natura Legis Naturae

November 14, 2013 By Medievalists.net

John Fortescue Lord Chief Justice(1395-1485)

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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Sir John Fortescue and the French Polemical Treatises of the Hundred Years War

February 10, 2013 By Medievalists.net

Inevitably Fortescue had to adopt new arguments for the defence of Henry VI. To this end he asserted that the Lancastrians now had a just title through divine and ecclesiastical approbation, popular consent and prescription, but the core of his case was a direct response to the Yorkist claim that they had a superior hereditary title to the throne.