“I’ve Got a Thing,” the first season of The Premodern Podcast, is a series of conversations about the objects, documents, and stories that premodernists just can’t stop thinking about. In this episode, Bruno Debaenst and Ryan Greenwood discuss Joos de Damhoudere’s mid-16th century lawbook, the Praxis rerum criminalium, including with its controversial origins, its role in legal history and the humanist movement, and Damhoudere’s adept use of visual media to explain the text.
“I’ve Got a Thing,” the first season of The Premodern Podcast, is a series of conversations about the objects, documents, and stories that premodernists just can’t stop thinking about. In this episode, Bruno Debaenst and Ryan Greenwood discuss Joos de Damhoudere’s mid-16th century lawbook, the Praxis rerum criminalium, including with its controversial origins, its role in legal history and the humanist movement, and Damhoudere’s adept use of visual media to explain the text.
Professor Bruno Debaenst is a Belgian legal historian. Since 2018, he has worked as senior lecturer and associate professor in legal history at the Law Faculty of Uppsala and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He is interested in Belgian, Swedish and comparative legal history with his specialty situated within the history of social law. Professor Ryan Greenwood specializes in rare books and historical legal research. His areas of interest include legal history, Roman and canon law, Anglo-American law, and the history of international law. As curator of rare books and special collections, he is steward of the Law Library's special collections, including the Pulling Rare Books Collection and Law School Archives. They are interviewed by Eli Wallace, graduate student in History, at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
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Our theme music is “Dangerous Diamonds” by Rogue Valley written by Chris Koza.
Our intermission music is "Summer is icumen in" by Anya Badaldavood.
This episode was produced by Moinak Choudhury.
Transcript by Karen Soto
The conversations on this podcast represent the framing and views of individual scholars which are not necessarily shared by the Center for Premodern Studies, the University of Minnesota, and their staff and affiliates.