| Description |
1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements ; Preface ; 1 Public Prosecution of Crime in Twelfth-Century England; 2 Criminal Law in England and Flanders under King Henry II and Count Philip of Alsace; 3 The Borough Charter of Saint-Omer of 1127, Granted by William Clito, Count of Flanders; 4 Methods of Proof in Western Medieval Law; 5 Law in the Medieval World; 6 Reflexious on the Place of the Low Countries in European Legal History; 7 The English Common Law seen from the European Continent; 8 The Rechtsstaat in Historical Perspective; 9 Max Weber: Historian and Sociologist; Index of Persons and Places |
| Summary |
R.C. Van Caenegem is one of the few legal historians to have crossed national boundaries successfully. His knowledge of the various codes and customs of the European Continent in general and the Low Countries in particular enables him to bring a fresh eye to the English Common law. Four of these nine essays have not been published in English before |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- Europe -- History
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Law -- Great Britain -- History.
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Law
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Europe
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780826420008 |
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0826420001 |
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