ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two issues: the nature of medieval and early modern English legal history and its place in interdisciplinary legal studies and the possible opportunities for expanding the interface between English legal history and other additional disciplines. Interdisciplinary intellectual pursuits in the legal academy have increased significantly in the last several decades, particularly in the United States. English legal history also seems dissimilar from the 'law and' phenomena as the notion of the decline of law's autonomy seems irrelevant to legal history. The primary strand has explored the intellectual history of the law, the evolution of legal institutions and legal doctrine. One commentator noted that 'the association between law and literature has never been more impressive than in Medieval England' and Maitland concurred. Both the American Society of Legal History and the American Law and Economics Association meetings have had panels, some of which involved medieval and early modern English history.
