Law and Revolution, II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition

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Harvard University Press, 2009 - 544 pàgines
Harold Berman's masterwork narrates the interaction of evolution and revolution in the development of Western law. This new volume explores two successive transformations of the Western legal tradition under the impact of the sixteenth-century German Reformation and the seventeenth-century English Revolution, with particular emphasis on Lutheran and Calvinist influences. Berman examines the far-reaching consequences of these apocalyptic political and social upheavals on the systems of legal philosophy, legal science, criminal law, civil and economic law, and social law in Germany and England and throughout Europe as a whole. Berman challenges both conventional approaches to legal history, which have neglected the religious foundations of Western legal systems, and standard social theory, which has paid insufficient attention to the communitarian dimensions of early modern economic law, including corporation law and social welfare. Clearly written and cogently argued, this long-awaited, magisterial work is a major contribution to an understanding of the relationship of law to Western belief systems.
 

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IV
31
VI
71
VII
100
VIII
131
IX
156
X
176
XI
199
XII
201
XIV
270
XV
306
XVI
330
XVII
349
XIX
373
XX
385
XXI
511
XXII
513

XIII
231

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Sobre l'autor (2009)

Harold J. Berman was Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University, and Ames Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard University.

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