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The mirror of justice : literary reflections of legal crises /

This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ziolkowski, Theodore (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1997]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction
  • Ch. 2. The Birth of Justice from the Spirit of Tragedy
  • Ch. 3. The Ambivalence toward Pagan Law
  • Ch. 4. The Role of Rome
  • Ch. 5. The Disenchantment with Customary Law
  • Ch. 6. The Reception of Roman Law in Germany
  • Ch. 7. European Variations
  • Ch. 8. Law and Equity I
  • Ch. 9. Law and Equity II
  • Ch. 10. The Attractions of Codification
  • Ch. 11. The Modern Crisis of Law
  • Ch. 12. Twentieth-Century Legal Evolutions.