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Article: Aliens in Medieval Law: the Origins of Modern Citizenship. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2002
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Keechang Kim. Aliens in Medieval Law: the Origins of Modern Citizenship. (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 250. $64.95. ISBN: 0-521-80085-4.
Keechang Kim's innovative view of the law of alien status in medieval and early modern England criticizes F. W. Maitland and others who thought legal distinctions between natives and foreigners started with the loss of Normandy and subsequent seizures of Norman property. He shows they did not, dismissing most of the cases used as evidence by earlier historians. Kim addresses the situations of foreign merchants trading in England, foreign clergy appointed to ...