The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era (eBook)

Historical Vision and Legal Change

James Q. Whitman (Autor)

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2014
300 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6098-2 (ISBN)

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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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie • Allgemeines Deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch • Antiqua (typeface class) • Antonio Martini • Arnaldo Momigliano • auctoritas • Austrians • Belisarius • Carlsbad Decrees • Central German • Central Germany (cultural area) • Central Germany (geography) • Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor • Church History (Eusebius) • Civil Code • Civil law (legal system) • Classical Antiquity • Codification (law) • Common Law • Constitutionalism • Constitutionalist (UK) • Count of Flanders • Custom (law) • dieu • Duchy of Carinthia • Electorate of Saxony • Erlangen • For Marx • French army • french nobility • Friedrich Carl von Savigny • Friedrich Engels • Friedrich List • German Academic Exchange Service • German Confederation • German Emperor • Germanisation • Germanism (linguistics) • German Language • German Literature • German Prince • german renaissance • German Romanticism • Germans • Giurgiu • Gustav Radbruch • Holy Roman Empire • House of Habsburg • Impediment (canon law) • Ius scriptum • Jurisprudence • Kingdom of Westphalia • Latin honors • Latin Literature • law firm • Law of Germany • legal consciousness • Legal culture • Legal Education • Legalism (Chinese philosophy) • Liberalism • Libri Feudorum • Lutheranism • Mainz • Marriage Law • Medieval university • Monti (rione of Rome) • napoleonic code • Natural and legal rights • Nazism • New Liberals • northern Germany • Oligarchy • Patrician (ancient Rome) • Peregrinus (Roman) • Political Science • Precaution (novel) • Reichskammergericht • Relativism • Renaissance humanism • Roman commerce • Roman constitution • Roman Curia • Roman Empire • Roman law • Roman magistrate • Roman Religion • roman republic • Salt tax • S. (Dorst novel) • Sources of law • Styria • Swabia • Tax exemption • The History of England (Hume) • Theory of Justification • Tories (British political party) • united states declaration of independence • Volk (German word) • Wissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6098-9 / 1400860989
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6098-2 / 9781400860982