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Law and revolution : the formation of the Western legal tradition

Author: Harold J Berman
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1983.
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Berman, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1918-2007.
Law and revolution.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1983
(OCoLC)657301887
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harold J Berman
ISBN: 0674517741 9780674517745 0674517768 9780674517769
OCLC Number: 8827871
Description: viii, 657 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction. Law and history --
Law and revolution --
The crisis of the Western legal tradition --
Toward a social theory of law --
Pt. 1. The papal revolution and the canon law. The background of the Western legal tradition : the folk-law --
The origin of the Western legal tradition in the papal revolution --
The origin of Western legal science in the European universities --
Theological sources of the Western legal tradition --
Canon law : the first modern Western legal system --
Structural elements of the system of canon law --
Becket versus Henry II : the competition of concurrent jurisdictions --
pt. 2. The formation of secular legal systems. The concept of secular law --
Feudal law --
Manorial law --
Mercantile law --
Urban law --
Royal law : Sicily, England, Normandy, France --
Royal law : Germany, Spain, Flanders, Hungary, Denmark --
Conclusion.
Responsibility: Harold J. Berman.

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