Roman Law in European History
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- Author: Peter Stein, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: May 1999
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521643795
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Roman law has had a huge impact on European legal and political thought. Peter Stein, one of the world's leading legal historians, explains in this masterly short study how this came to be. He assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and modern Europe. Roman Law in European History is unparalleled in depth, lucidity and authority, and should prove of enormous utility for teachers and students (at all levels) of legal history, comparative law and European Studies.
Read more- A major short synthetic statement on a massive theme by a senior legal scholar
- Substantial adoption potential in UK, Europe and USA
- One of the five 'legal books of the year' in Germany in 1997
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"Fact-filled as this book is, with its myriad names, dates and book titles, the author never allows the reader to lose sight of the trends, tensions, and debates that shped the use of Roman law down through the centuries, ending with the civil codes of the modern European nation states. This is a welcome treatment and guide to its subject." The Classical Bulletin
See more reviews"In Roman Law in European History, a master gives his readers both an introduction to the law of ancient Rome and an account of how that law lives on, well after the demise of the ancient society." David V. Snyder, H-Net Reviews
"...immensely useful and pleasurable reading.... The entire book will be welcome across many disciplines, but especially to historians and those interested in European culture and its reception of the classical tradition." Religious Studies Review
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- Date Published: May 1999
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521643795
- length: 148 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.273kg
- contains: 1 map
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction
Part II. Roman Law in Antiquity:
1. The law of the Twelve Tables
2. Legal development by interpretation
3. The praetor and the control of remedies
4. The ius gentium and the advent of jurists
5. The Empire and the law
6. The jurists in the classical period
7. The ordering of the law
8. The culmination of classical jurisprudence
9. The division of the empire
10. Post-classical law and procedure
11. The decline of legal science
12. The end of the Western empire
13. Justinian and the Corpus iuris
Part III. The Revival of Justinian's Law:
14. Roman law and Germanic law in the West
15. Church and empire
16. The rediscovery of the Digest
17. The civil law glossolators
18. Civil law and canon law
19. The attraction of the Bologna studium
20. The new learning outside Italy
21. Applied civil law: legal procedure
22. Applied civil law: legislative power
23. Civil law and custom
24. Civil law and local laws in the thirteenth century
25. The studium of Orleans
Part IV. Roman Law and the Nation State:
26. The commentators
27. The impact of humanism
28. Humanism and the civil law
29. The civil law becomes a science
30. The ordering of the customary law
31. The Bartolist reaction
32. The reception of Roman law
33. The reception in Germany
34. Court practice as a source of law
35. Civil law and natural law
36. Civil law and international law
37. Theory and practice in the Netherlands
Part V. Roman Law and Codification:
38. Roman law and national laws
39. The mature natural law
40. The codification movement
41. Early codifications in Germany and Austria
42. Pothier and the French Civil Code
43. The German historical school
44. Pandect-science and the German Civil Code
45. Nineteenth-century legal science outside Germany
46. Roman law in the twentieth century.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Introduction to the History of Law
- Roman Law in History
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