A Short History of European Law : The Last Two and a Half Millennia / Tamar Herzog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herzog, Tamar, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Tamar Herzog offers a road map to European law across 2,500 years that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By showing what European law was, where its iterations were found, who made and implemented it, and what the results were, she ties legal norms to their historical circumstances and reveals the law’s fragile malleability.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Notes

Further Reading

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

9780674981744

067498174X

OCLC:

1054866881