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Some might say Professor of History Bruce O\u2019Brien<\/strong> is stuck in the Middle Ages \u2013 he might thank you for the compliment in Old English.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>O\u2019Brien is leading an international collaborative effort called the Early English Laws Project<\/a>, which aims to re-edit and translate all 150 of the early English laws issued between 600 to 1225 and make them accessible to the public through an online database.<\/p>\n

In light of the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, the project takes a new resonance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will make early law codes accessible to anyone,\u201d he said, noting that laws like the Magna Carta have influenced some of the most important legal documents in history, including the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien is the academic lead of the project, a collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and the Department of Digital Humanities at King\u2019s College London.<\/p>\n

The initial launch of the project in January marked the culmination of three years of work for O\u2019Brien and his team. About half of the texts are completely done, including commentaries, introductions, translation and images of all of the earliest\u00a0 manuscript folios.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien, who also is a visiting fellow at the Institute for Historical Research, has given talks on the project at Cambridge, London, York, St. Andrews, Cardiff, and Bangor in Wales, as well as in the United States.\u00a0 He spoke most recently at a conference in Copenhagen in September to discuss some of his recent discoveries for the international project.<\/p>\n

National Public Radio recently featured O’Brien in its food blog “The Salt<\/a>” and in a radio segment on WAMU 88.5 “Virginia Scholar Opens Magna Carta to Study<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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