Law and history / edited by Andrew Lewis and Michael Lobban.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Law -- History.

Jurisprudence -- History.

Law -- History -- Great Britain.

Introduction: The tools and the tasks of the legal historian

What is legal history a history of?

Norms and legal argument before 1150

Myth, mistake, invention? Excavating the foundations of the English legal tradition

Montesquieu between law and history

The Ambition of Lord Kames's equity

Law, history, and memorable sentences

Henry Sumner Maine's grand tour: Roman law in Ancient Law

Law and 'tradition': Henry Maine and the theoretical origins of indirect rule

Max Weber and comparative legal history

Weber and the ideal of Roman law

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