Birkelund Fellow at the Academy in fall 2016. In her Academy project, “Per capitularios nostros: Law and its Uses in the Frankish Kingdoms,” Davis turns her attention to the invention of the capitularies, a form of royal law created by the Merovingian Franks. Using manuscript evidence, she examines how these legal sources – a new genre of law in the post-Roman period – were transformed from the sixth to the twelfth centuries.