User:Alvestrand/Jury history

Keeping my own notes in order:

Jagged85 adding the islamic theory to Jury:

Anon editor protesting the idea at Islamic contributions to Medieval Europe:

Dates

 * Greek jury courts: 500 BC
 * Origin of Maliki school of Islamic law: Malik ibn Anas (715-796)
 * Varangians (Vikings in the Black Sea via Russia): 9th and 10th centuries, mentioned in Byzantine in 839
 * Norman conquest of Sicily: 1061
 * Assize of Clarendon: 1166
 * Fall of Constantinople: 1453