Welsh Legal History Society
Cymdeithas Hanes Cyfraith Cymru

Volume VI for 2006

LAW AND JUSTICE IN THE INTEGRATION OF TWO LANDS: FRANCE AND BRITTANY, ENGLAND AND WALES

This volume brings together the results of a colloquium held in Cardiff and Rennes in 2005 and its publication fills the chronological gap in the series to date. The papers are as follows (nb some papers appear both in English and French: the English titles alone, of the translations by Olivier Taviot, are given below):

Contents

The Crown of England and the Medieval Government of Wales
J.Beverly Smith

En route to Ireland: Henry II and the Laws of Wales
Thomas Glyn Watkin

Early Modern Precedents for Autonomous Welsh Government
Peter R. Roberts

Did an Independent Breton state exist before the Marriage of Anne of Brittany?
Thierry Hamon

The Parlement of Brittany from the XVIth to the XVIIIth Centuries: A guardian of Breton Liberties or a French Incorporative Institution?
Marie-Yvonne Crépin

Brittany Nationalised: The Controversy of 8-11 January 1790 before the Constituent Assembly
Sylvain Soleil

The Ermine and the Purple: The Court of Rennes and the Court of Cassation in the XIXth Century
Claire Bouglé-Le Roux

Custom and Criminal case Law in the XVIth-XVIIIth Centuries A Breton Legal idiosyncracy or the Establishment of French Law
Muriel Rolland

Le Modèle Gallois et la Pratique Galloise de la Dévolution
David Lambert and Marie Navarro

Address by the President at the Conclusion of the Cardiff Session
The Right Hon. Sir John Thomas, PC

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