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Making legal history : approaches and methodology /

"Drawing together leading legal historians froma 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, me...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Musson, Anthony, 1966-, Stebbings, Chantal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Reflections on 'doing' legal history / Sir John Baker
  • Editing law reports and doing legal history : compatible or incompatible projects? / Paul Brand
  • The indispensability of manuscript case notes to eighteenth-century barristers and judges / James Oldham
  • Judging judges : the reputations of nineteenth-century judges and their sources / Patrick Polden
  • Benefits and barriers : the making of Victorian legal history / Chantal Stebbings
  • Methodology in legal history : from the history of free speech to the role of history in transatlantic legal thought / David M. Rabban
  • The methodological debates in German-speaking Europe (1960-1990) / Marcel Senn
  • Exploring the law in medieval minds : the duty of the legal historian to write the books of non-written law / Dirk Heirbaut
  • Comparative legal history : a methodology / David Ibbetson
  • 'They put to the torture all the ancient monuments' : reflections on making eighteenth-century Irish legal history / Seán Patrick Donlan
  • The politics of historiography and the taxonomies of the colonial past : law, history and the tribes / Paul McHugh
  • Lay legal history / Wilfrid Prest
  • Antiquarianism and legal history / Michael Stuckey
  • Re-examining King John and Magna Carta : reflections on reasons, methodology and methods / Jane Frecknall-Hughes
  • Visual sources : mirror of justice or 'through a glass darkly'? / Anthony Musson
  • Sanctity, superstition and the death of Sarah Jacob / Richard W. Ireland.