| Description |
xvi, 346 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Part One : Law and the capitalist rise to power: an overview -- 1. The merchant as rebel -- 2. The backdrop of the new legal institutions -- Part Two : The merchants seek a place in the feudal order (1000-1200) -- 3. Introduction -- 4. The Crusades: seizure of trade routes and spread of bourgeois ideology -- 5. Venice and Amalfi: between East and West -- 6. Some origins of urban culture -- 7. Transport by land and sea -- 8. Popes and merchants -- 9. The Bourgeoisie in 1200 -- Part Three : Bourgeois lawyers, royal power, and urban development (1200-1400) -- 10. Introduction -- 11. Beaumanoir and others: the theoreticians of a new order -- 12. The merchant capital of Grasse -- 13. Peasant rebellion and land law -- Part Four : The bourgeois ascendancy (1400-1600) -- 14. Introduction -- 15. Thomas More and the destruction of the medieval vision -- 16. Recasting the law of real property -- 17. Contract -- a study of law and social reality -- Part Five : Bourgeois victory (1600-1804) -- 18. France: The triumph of the third estate -- 19. England: the techniques of the common law -- Part Six : Insurgency and jurisprudence -- 20. The development of legal ideology -- 21. Leading schools of legal thought -- 22. The jurisprudence of insurgency |
| Summary |
Originally published in 1977 and translated into Spanish, Portugese, Greek, and Chinese, Law and the Rise of Capitalism examines the role of law and lawyers in the European bourgeoisie's conquest of power. From the scattered urban uprisings of the eleventh century to the English and French revolutions, Michael Tigar traces this history using charters, letters, statutes, and other primary sources.Against a backdrop of seven hundred years of bourgeois struggle, Tigar weaves a Marxist theory of law and jurisprudence based upon the Western experience. Contradicting R.H. Tawney and Max Weber, he shows that the legal theory of the insurgent bourgeoisie predated the Protestant Reformation and was a major ideological ingredient of the bourgeois revolution and also helps explain today's revolutionary movements.In a compelling new introduction, Tigar discusses the struggle for human rights in the historical context of the past two decades, drawing on his own experiences as a fighter for democratic rights in the United States, Europe and South Africa |
| Analysis |
Europe Law Social aspects to 1976 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 331-337 |
| Subject |
Law -- Europe -- History.
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Sociological jurisprudence -- History -- Europe.
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Sociological jurisprudence -- History.
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Sociological jurisprudence -- Europe -- History.
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| Author |
Levy, Madeleine R.
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| LC no. |
77070968 |
| ISBN |
0853454116 |
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