![]() | Las Siete Partidas, Volume 5: Underworlds: The Dead, the Criminal, and the Marginalized (Partidas VI and VII) A major thirteenth-century Spanish law code whose tenets can still be found in the state laws of California, Texas, and Louisiana. Robert I. Burns, S.J., is a senior professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of the Institute of Medieval Mediterranean Spain in Playa del Rey, California. |
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