Making legal history : approaches and methodologies / edited by Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Musson, Anthony, 1966- editor.

Stebbings, Chantal, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Historiography.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing together leading legal historians from a range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the contributors explore the approaches, methods and sources that together form the basis of their research and shed light on the complexities of researching into the history of the law. By exploring the challenges posed by visual, unwritten and quasi-legal sources, the difficulties posed by traditional archival material and the novelty of exploring the development of legal culture and comparative perspectives, the book reveals the richness and dynamism of legal history research.

Contents:

Reflections on 'doing' legal history / Sir John Baker

Editing law reports and doing legal history : compatible or incompatible projects? / Paul Brand

The indispensability of manuscript case notes to eighteenth-century barristers and judges / James Oldham

Judging judges : the reputations of nineteenth-century judges and their sources / Patrick Polden

Benefits and barriers : the making of Victorian legal history / Chantal Stebbings

Methodology in legal history : from the history of free speech to the role of history in transatlantic legal thought / David M. Rabban

The methodological debates in German-speaking Europe (1960-1990) / Marcel Senn

Exploring the law in medieval minds : the duty of the legal historian to write the books of non-written law / Dirk Heirbaut

Comparative legal history : a methodology / David Ibbetson

'They put to the torture all the ancient monuments' : reflections on making eighteenth-century Irish legal history / Seán Patrick Donlan

The politics of historiography and the taxonomies of the colonial past : law, history and the tribes / Paul McHugh

Lay legal history / Wilfrid Prest

Antiquarianism and legal history / Michael Stuckey

Re-examining King John and Magna Carta : reflections on reasons, methodology and methods / Jane Frecknall-Hughes

Visual sources : mirror of justice or 'through a glass darkly'? / Anthony Musson

Sanctity, superstition and the death of Sarah Jacob / Richard W. Ireland.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-22985-5

1-139-20998-1

1-280-48531-0

1-139-22293-7

9786613580290

1-139-21813-1

1-139-22465-4

1-139-21504-3

1-139-02857-X

1-139-22122-1

OCLC:

775869978