Jonathan Rose

Emeritus Professor Jonathan Rose will present a paper on Thursday, March 14, at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies -- Preparing for Death in Medieval and Early Modern Europe -- in Finland. Rose’s paper is entitled “Medieval Estate Planning: The Wills and Testamentary Trials of Sir John Fastolf.”

Participants will investigate and explore the various ways and strategies medieval and early modern people used in attempting to prepare themselves and others -- body, soul, property and memory -- for death. For more information about the conference, click here.

After spending most of his career focusing on antitrust, regulation and legal ethics, Rose changed direction. His primary scholarly interests now involve medieval and early modern English legal history, and his research focuses on the history and regulation of the legal profession and the operation of the medieval legal system. Rose has also written on early defamation law, medieval prisons, and the historiography of legal history.