Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published a chapter titled "Constitutions" in A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age, edited by Peter Goodrich of Cardozo School of Law, New York. The book is volume three of a six-volume set on law and culture, published by Bloomsbury Press this month. Byrne's chapter includes information on the concept of a constitution in medieval Spain, on Sancho Panza's constitutions in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote, and on the influence of the latter, fictional work on the founding fathers of the United States as they wrote the U.S. Constitution.
