A short history of European law : the last two and a half millennia
Présentation de l'éditeur : "To many observers, European law seems like the endpoint of a mostly random walk through history. Certainly the trajectory of legal systems in the West over the past 2,500 years is far from self-evident. In A Short History of European Law, Tamar Herzog offers a...
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Format : | Livre |
Langue : | anglais |
Titre complet : | A short history of European law : the last two and a half millennia / Tamar Herzog |
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Cambridge, Mass. [etc.] :
Harvard University Press
, 2018 |
Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (VI- 289 p.) |
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- Introduction. The making of law in Europe
- Part One. Ancient times
- 1. Roman law: now you see it, now you don t
- 2. The creation of Latin Christendom
- Part Two. The early Middle Ages
- 3. An age with no jurists?
- 4. Lords, emperors, and popes around the year 1000
- Part Three. The later Middle Ages
- 5. The birth of a European Ius Commune
- 6. The birth of an English common law
- Part Four. The early modern period
- 7. Crisis and reaffirmation of Ius Commune
- 8. Crisis and reinvention of common law
- 9. From Ius Gentium to natural law: making European law universal I
- Part Five. Modernity
- 10. North American developments
- 11. The French Revolution
- Part Six. The nineteenth century
- 12. Codifying the laws of Europe: making European law universal II
- 13. Codifying common law
- Epilogue. A Market, a Community, and a Union