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Whitman The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-6098-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Historical Vision and Legal Change
E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6098-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Well after the process of codification had begun elsewhere in nineteenth-century Europe, ancient Roman law remained in use in Germany, expounded by brilliant scholars and applied in both urban and rural courts. The survival of this flourishing Roman legal culture into the industrial era is a familiar fact, but until now little effort has been made to explain it outside the province of specialized legal history. James Whitman seeks to remedy this neglect by exploring the broad political and cultural significance of German Roman law, emphasizing the hope on the part of German Roman lawyers that they could in some measure revive the Roman social order in their own society. Discussing the background of Romantic era law in the law of the Reformation, Whitman makes the great German tradition of legal scholarship more accessible to all those interested in German history. Drawing on treatises already known to legal historians as well as on previously unexploited records of legal practice, Whitman traces the traditions that allowed nineteenth-century German lawyers like Savigny to present themselves as uniquely "impartial" and "unpolitical." This book will be of particular interest to students of the many German thinkers who were trained as Roman lawyers, among them Marx and Weber.
Originally published in 1990.
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FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. vii
Preface, pg. ix
Acknowledgments, pg. xvii
Abbreviations, pg. xviii
CHAPTER I. Law in the Fourth Monarchy of Melanchthon, pg. 3
CHAPTER II. Decline of the Roman-Law Corporate Tradition in the Eighteenth Century, pg. 41
CHAPTER III. Imperial Revival in the First Romantic Decade and the Discovery of the Antonines, pg. 66
CHAPTER IV. Imperial Tradition and the New Professoriate after 1814, pg. 92
CHAPTER V. High Cultural Tradition as an Instrument of Reform: The Professoriate and the Agrarfrage, pg. 151
CHAPTER VI. Cultural Crisis and Legal Change after 1840, pg. 200
Conclusion, pg. 229
Glossary of Terms and Phrases, pg. 235
Works Cited, pg. 239
Index, pg. 273
