The Oxford handbook of legal history
"Some of the most exciting, and innovative, legal scholarship over the past few decades has been driven by historical curiosity. This Handbook offers a fascinating compendium of methodological studies from the field of legal history."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Drawing on scholarship from around the world, and representing a variety of methodological approaches, areas of expertise, and research agendas, this compendium takes stock of legal history and methodology and reflects on the various modes of historical analysis of law, past, pr…
"Some of the most exciting, and innovative, legal scholarship over the past few decades has been driven by historical curiosity. This Handbook offers a fascinating compendium of methodological studies from the field of legal history."--From publisher.
Focusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates, novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men and women, down-at-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives in their coverture, History and the Law reveals how people thought about, used, manipulat…
"This book is about people's relationships with, to, and under the law in the past, and modern historians' understanding of the law as experienced by those people. With some zig-zaggery into the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, the eighteenth to the nineteenth century is its…
"This book is about people's relationships with, to, and under the law in the past, and modern historians' understanding of the law as experienced by those people. With some zig-zaggery into the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, the eighteenth to the nineteenth century is its…
"This book is about people's relationships with, to, and under the law in the past, and modern historians' understanding of the law as experienced by those people. With some zig-zaggery into the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, the eighteenth to the nineteenth century is its…
"This book is about people's relationships with, to, and under the law in the past, and modern historians' understanding of the law as experienced by those people. With some zig-zaggery into the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, the eighteenth to the nineteenth century is its…
"This book is about people's relationships with, to, and under the law in the past, and modern historians' understanding of the law as experienced by those people. With some zig-zaggery into the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, the eighteenth to the nineteenth century is its…