| Description |
348 pages : 23 cm |
| Contents |
Part I. Law and the capitalist rise to power : an overview 1. The Merchant as rebel - 2. The backdrop of the new legal institutions -- Part II. 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 III. 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 IV. 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 V. Bourgeois victory (1600-1804) 18. France : the triumph of the third estate -- 19. England : the techniques of the common law -- Part VI. Insurgency and jurisprudence 20. The Development of legal ideology -- 21. Leading schools of legal thought -- 22. The Jurisprudence of insurgency -- Afterword Legal ideology today -- Human rights, the nation-state, and international law : from Grotius to Bentham -- US Constitutionalism and its anomalies -- Enforcing human rights internationally : from Nuremberg to Pinochet -- The Jurisprudence of insurgency revisited -- Appendix Foreword to the first edition |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-339) and index |
| Subject |
Law -- Europe -- History.
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Middle class -- Europe -- History.
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Law and economics -- History.
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| Author |
Levy, Madeleine R.
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| LC no. |
00050103 |
| ISBN |
1583670300 alkaline paper |
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