Table of Contents: Introduction1. The Making of Urban Charters and Custumals2. The Authorship and Transmission of Urban Custumals3. Customary Time and Urban Memory4. Custom, Community, and the Common Good5. Unenfranchisement: The Gendered and Classed Boundaries of Custom6. Oath-Taking and the Performance of Urban Customary LawCoda Drawing on a quantitative analysis of hundreds of printed and archival sources from 77 towns, The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval England is the first cross-regional investigation into the history of urban customs since Mary Bateson's seminal, two-volume work Borough Customs (1904-1906). In contrast to English common law and church law, which both had long institutional and academic traditions devoted to training men in their legal philosophies, customary law constituted local practices that acquired the force of law over time. Urban customary law regulated political officeholding, trade, property holding, and even moral behaviour in English towns. The Making of Ur
