The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I / Sir Frederick Pollock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollock, Sir Frederick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Great Britain--History.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (2nd ed.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : University Press, 1898.

Summary:

Although this book was envisaged as a joint venture and bears the name of both Pollock and Maitland, it is substantially the work of Maitland. It was recognized at once as a masterpiece and has since been accepted as one of the great histories in the English language. In Maitland's lifetime Acton pronounced him the ablest historian in England. Plucknett said that 'everything he wrote exercises a deep fascination and a personal attraction'. To Sir Maurice Powicke he was 'one of the immortals'. Lord Annan, in the preface to his Leslie Stephen, called him 'perhaps the greatest of all professional historians'. To read The History of English Law, even many years after Maitland's death, is to feel at once the touch of a master.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (University Press, viewed August 9, 2023).