Making legal history : approaches and methodologies /
Making legal history : approaches and methodologies /
edited by Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings.
- ix, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reflections on'doing' legal history / Editing law reports and doing legal history : compatible or incompatible projects? / The indispensability of manuscript case notes to eighteenth-century barristers and judges / Judging judges : the reputations of nineteenth-century judges and their sources / Benefits and barriers : the making of Victorian legal history / Methodology in legal history : from the history of free speech to the role of history in transatlantic legal thought / The methodological debates in German-speaking Europe (1960-1990) / Exploring the law in medieval minds : the duty of the legal historian to write the books of non-written law / Comparative legal history : a methodology / 'They put to the torture all the ancient monuments' : reflections on making eighteenth-century Irish legal history / The politics of historiography and the taxonomies of the colonial past : law, history and the tribes / Lay legal history / Antiquarianism and legal history / Re-examining King John and Magna Carta : reflections on reasons, methodology and methods / Visual sources : mirror of justice or'through a glass darkly'? / Sanctity, superstition and the death of Sarah Jacob / Sir John Baker -- Paul Brand -- James Oldham -- Patrick Polden -- Chantal Stebbings -- David M. Rabban -- Marcel Senn -- Dirk Heirbaut -- David Ibbetson -- Sean Patrick Donlan -- Paul McHugh -- Wilfrid Prest -- Michael Stuckey -- Jane Frecknall-Hughes -- Anthony Musson -- Richard W. Ireland.
'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 formthe 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'--
9781107014497 (hardback) RM319.04 1107014492 (hardback)
Law--Historiography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reflections on'doing' legal history / Editing law reports and doing legal history : compatible or incompatible projects? / The indispensability of manuscript case notes to eighteenth-century barristers and judges / Judging judges : the reputations of nineteenth-century judges and their sources / Benefits and barriers : the making of Victorian legal history / Methodology in legal history : from the history of free speech to the role of history in transatlantic legal thought / The methodological debates in German-speaking Europe (1960-1990) / Exploring the law in medieval minds : the duty of the legal historian to write the books of non-written law / Comparative legal history : a methodology / 'They put to the torture all the ancient monuments' : reflections on making eighteenth-century Irish legal history / The politics of historiography and the taxonomies of the colonial past : law, history and the tribes / Lay legal history / Antiquarianism and legal history / Re-examining King John and Magna Carta : reflections on reasons, methodology and methods / Visual sources : mirror of justice or'through a glass darkly'? / Sanctity, superstition and the death of Sarah Jacob / Sir John Baker -- Paul Brand -- James Oldham -- Patrick Polden -- Chantal Stebbings -- David M. Rabban -- Marcel Senn -- Dirk Heirbaut -- David Ibbetson -- Sean Patrick Donlan -- Paul McHugh -- Wilfrid Prest -- Michael Stuckey -- Jane Frecknall-Hughes -- Anthony Musson -- Richard W. Ireland.
'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 formthe 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'--
9781107014497 (hardback) RM319.04 1107014492 (hardback)
Law--Historiography.