Publications
Books
Law, Culture, and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (under contract, Cambridge University Press).
. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007.
Reviewed in: American Historical Review; Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales; Journal of Modern History; H-France Reviews; French History; Law and History Review; Renaissance Quarterly; Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire; Annales de Bourgogne.
Articles
“Power and Proof: Family and State in Factums and Plaidoyers Concerning Marital Annulment Suits and the Épreuve du Congrès (16th-17th Centuries),” in Claire Chatelain & Inès Goméz Gonzaléz, eds., Plaidoyers judiciaires et usages de l’Etat, Europe et mers, XVIe-XIXe siècles. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025 (in press).
[In Chinese Translation]: “Lawyers, Law Courts, and Litigants: Towards a Social and Cultural History of Law and Governance Early Modern Europe,” International Social Science Journal (Chinese edition), (forthcoming).
“,” in Cornel Zwierlein and Daniel Lee, eds., Sovereignty: European and Global Histories, 1400-1800, 192-213. Leiden: Brill, 2024. DOI:10.1163/9789004218628_009
“The Legal World and Legal Culture of Early Modern France” in Kristen Poole & Keith Luria, eds., Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World, 2024. DOI: 10.4324/9780367347093-RERW177-1
“Annulment Suits and the épreuve du congrès at the Officialité de Paris in the Early Seventeenth Century: Judicial Theory and Legal Practice,” Genre & Histoire, 28 (2021). Online since 01 January 2022 at
“” Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. ed. Margaret King. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
"Social History and the Law in Early Modern France," in Barbara B. Diefendorf, ed., Social Relations, Politics, and Power in Early Modern France: Robert Descimon and the Historian’s Craft. 42-60. Kirksville MO: Truman State University Press: 2016.
"" Journal of Modern History, 87:4 (2015): 771-808.
"Le président Bouhier et les controverses autour de l'épreuve du congrès au XVIIIe siècle," Annales de Bourgogne, 85:1-4 (2013): 69-83.
“«Le public ne se persuade pas»: l’opinion publique, le droit féodal et la défense des intérêts municipaux dans l’affaire du Montmuzard à Dijon (1749-50)," in Serge Dauchy, Véronique Demars-Sion, Hervé Leuwers, and Sabrina Michel, eds., Les parlementaires, acteurs de la vie provinciale. 177-86. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013.
"," in Philippe Hamon and Catherine Laurent, eds., Le pouvoir dans la ville: l'exercice du pouvoir municipal de la fin du Moyen Âge à 1789. 103-23. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012.
“” Journal of Modern History, 83:2 (2011): 346-86.
“” Histoire, Économie, et Société, 30:2 (2011): 3-13.
“,” French History, 20:2 (2006): 138-60.
“Patronage, Politics and the ‘Rule of Law’ in Early Modern France” , 33 (2005): 95-113.
“,” in Claire Dolan, ed., Entre justice et justiciables: Les auxiliaires de justice du Moyen Age au XXe siècle. 347-64, Québec City: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2005.
“,” Journal of Social History, 38:2 (2004): 341-64.
“La pensée politique des avocats au Parlement de Dijon au XVIIe siècle,” in Jacques Poumarède and Jack Thomas, eds. Les parlements de province: pouvoirs, justice, société, XVe -XVIIIe siècles. 741-54. Toulouse: FRAMESPA, 1996.
Edited Volumes & Forums
“,” French Historical Studies 38:4 (2015): 525-631.
“,” Special Issue of Histoire, Économie et Société, 30:2 (2011).