Esther Liberman Cuenca received her PhD in History from Fordham University and is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria in Victoria, Texas. She is an editor of the undergraduate textbook, Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World: An Introduction through Film (Fordham Press, 2025), and her essays have appeared in Urban History, The Paris Review, Continuity and Change, and Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques. She has received fellowships and awards from the Mellon Foundation, Medieval Academy of America, and American Philosophical Society. In 2022/23, she was a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

The Making of Urban Customary Law is a remarkable feat. It grapples with multiple, inconsistent, and dense legal traditions that shifted over time and continued to change into the eighteenth century. ...It provides researchers a methodological framework and a critical guide to source materials to incorporate urban custom into broad studies of medieval society.

• Introduction 1: The Making of Urban Charters and Custumals 2: The Authorship and Transmission of Urban Custumals 3: Customary Time and Urban Memory 4: Custom, Community, and the Common Good 5: Unenfranchisement: The Gendered and Classed Boundaries of Custom 6: Oath-Taking and the Performance of Urban Customary Law Coda

Esther Liberman Cuenca received her PhD in History from Fordham University and is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria in Victoria, Texas. She is an editor of the undergraduate textbook, Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World: An Introduction through Film (Fordham Press, 2025), and her essays have appeared in Urban History, The Paris Review, Continuity and Change, and Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques. She has received fellowships and awards from the Mellon Foundation, Medieval Academy of America, and American Philosophical Society. In 2022/23, she was a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

The Making of Urban Customary Law is a remarkable feat. It grapples with multiple, inconsistent, and dense legal traditions that shifted over time and continued to change into the eighteenth century. ...It provides researchers a methodological framework and a critical guide to source materials to incorporate urban custom into broad studies of medieval society.

• Introduction 1: The Making of Urban Charters and Custumals 2: The Authorship and Transmission of Urban Custumals 3: Customary Time and Urban Memory 4: Custom, Community, and the Common Good 5: Unenfranchisement: The Gendered and Classed Boundaries of Custom 6: Oath-Taking and the Performance of Urban Customary Law Coda

Esther Liberman Cuenca received her PhD in History from Fordham University and is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria in Victoria, Texas. She is an editor of the undergraduate textbook, Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World: An Introduction through Film (Fordham Press, 2025), and her essays have appeared in Urban History, The Paris Review, Continuity and Change, and Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques. She has received fellowships and awards from the Mellon Foundation, Medieval Academy of America, and American Philosophical Society. In 2022/23, she was a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

The Making of Urban Customary Law is a remarkable feat. It grapples with multiple, inconsistent, and dense legal traditions that shifted over time and continued to change into the eighteenth century. ...It provides researchers a methodological framework and a critical guide to source materials to incorporate urban custom into broad studies of medieval society.

• Introduction 1: The Making of Urban Charters and Custumals 2: The Authorship and Transmission of Urban Custumals 3: Customary Time and Urban Memory 4: Custom, Community, and the Common Good 5: Unenfranchisement: The Gendered and Classed Boundaries of Custom 6: Oath-Taking and the Performance of Urban Customary Law Coda