Making Legal History (eBook, PDF)

Approaches and Methodologies
Redaktion: Musson, Anthony

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing together leading legal historians from a range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the contributors explore the approaches, methods and sources that together form the basis of their research and shed light on the complexities of researching into the history of the law. By exploring the challenges posed by visual, unwritten and quasi-legal sources, the difficulties posed by traditional archival material and the novelty of exploring the development of legal culture and comparative perspectives, the book reveals the richness and dynamism of legal history research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139211604
• Artikelnr.: 38279474

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings; Foreword: reflections on
'doing' legal history Sir John Baker; 1. Editing law reports and doing
legal history: compatible or incompatible projects Paul Brand; 2. The
indispensability of manuscript case notes to eighteenth-century barristers
and judges James Oldham; 3. Judging the judges: the reputations of
nineteenth century judges and their sources Patrick Polden; 4. Benefits and
barriers: the making of Victorian legal history Chantal Stebbings; 5. The
historical turn in late nineteenth-century American legal thought David M.
Rabban; 6. The methodological debates in German speaking Europe (1960¿90)
Marcel Senn; 7. Exploring the minds of lawyers: the duty of the legal
historian to write the books of non-written law Dirk Heirbaut; 8.
Comparative legal history: a methodology David Ibbetson; 9. 'They put to
the torture all the ancient monuments': reflections on making
eighteenth-century Irish legal history Sean Donlan; 10. The politics of
historiography and the taxonomies of the colonial past: law, history and
the tribes Paul McHugh; 11. Lay legal history Wilf Prest; 12.
Antiquarianism and legal history Michael Stuckey; 13. Re-examining King
John and Magna Carta: reflections on reasons, methodology and methods Jane
Frecknall-Hughes; 14. Visual sources: mirror of justice or 'through a glass
darkly'? Anthony Musson; 15. Sanctity, superstition and the death of Sarah
Jacob Richard Ireland.