Title The ancient constitution and the feudal law : a study of English historical thought in the seventeenth century :a reissue with a retrospect / J.G.A. Pocock

Edition [New edition] Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987

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Description xv, 402 pages ; 24 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Preface to the first edition -- Part I. The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: 1. Introductory: the French prelude to modern historiography -- 2. The common-law mind: custom and the immemorial -- 3. The common-law mind: the absence of a basis of comparison -- 4. The discovery of feudalism: French and Scottish historians -- 5. The discovery of feudalism: Sir Henry Spelman -- 6. Interregnum: the Oceana of James Harrington -- 7. Interregnum: the first royalist reaction and the response of Sir Matthew Hale -- 8. The Brady controversy -- 9. Conclusion: 1688 in the history of historiography -- Part II. The Ancient Constitution Revisited: A Retrospect from 1986: 10. Historiography and common law -- 11. Civil War and interregnum -- 12. Restoration, revolution and oligarchy -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index Includes index Subject Constitutional history -- Great Britain. Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. LC no. 86021583 ISBN 0521303524 052131643X (paperback)

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