Law and Revolution

The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition

AvHarold J. Berman

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Harold Berman’s masterwork narrates the interaction of evolution and revolution in the development of Western law. This new volume explores two successive transformations of the Western legal tradition under the impact of the sixteenth-century German Reformation and the seventeenth-century English Revolution, with particular emphasis on Lutheran and Calvinist influences. Berman examines the far-reaching consequences of these apocalyptic political and social upheavals on the systems of legal philosophy, legal science, criminal law, civil and economic law, and social law in Germany and England and throughout Europe as a whole.Berman challenges both conventional approaches to legal history, which have neglected the religious foundations of Western legal systems, and standard social theory, which has paid insufficient attention to the communitarian dimensions of early modern economic law, including corporation law and social welfare.Clearly written and cogently argued, this long-awaited, magisterial work is a major contribution to an understanding of the relationship of law to Western belief systems.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-09-01
Mått:161 x 243 x 29 mm
Vikt:790 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:544
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674022300
Utmärkelser:Nominated for David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History or Biography 2004

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Mer om författaren

Harold J. Berman was Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University and Ames Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

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Taken together, Berman’s two volumes offer a sweeping panorama of the rise of modern law in the West, from its medieval beginnings to the start of the eighteenth century. In scope, learning, and ambition there is nothing else quite like them, and they constitute one of the deepest contributions to scholarship to have emerged from the legal academy in decades. In calling attention to these neglected episodes in the history of Western law, Berman has raised a host of difficult questions for historical and philosophical investigation, and one can only hope that others will follow his footsteps and explore the territory he has charted.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Introduction I. The German Revolution and the Transformation of German Law in the Sixteenth Century 1. The Reformation of the Church and of the State, 1517-1555 2. Lutheran Legal Philosophy 3. The Transformation of German Legal Science 4. The Transformation of German Criminal Law 5. The Transformation of German Civil and Economic Law 6. The Transformation of German Social Law Ii. The English Revolution and the Transformation of English Law in the Seventeenth Century 7. The English Revolution, 1640-1689 8. The Transformation of English Legal Philosophy 9. The Transformation of English Legal Science 10. The Transformation of English Criminal Law 11. The Transformation of English Civil and Economic Law 12. The Transformation of English Social Law Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index