Roman law in European history
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Roman law in European history
Cambridge University Press, 1999
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Römisches Recht und Europa
Roemisches Recht und Europa
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published in German by Fischer Taschenbuch (1996)
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a short and succinct summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by one of the world's leading legal historians. Peter Stein's masterly study 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 lucidity and authority, and should prove of enormous utility for teachers and students (at all levels) of legal history, comparative law and European Studies. Award-winning on its appearance in German translation, this English rendition of a magisterial work of interpretive synthesis is an invaluable contribution to the understanding of perhaps the most important European legal tradition of all.
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.
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