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R. C. Van Caenegem;
eds. Ludo Milis, Daniel Lambrecht, Hilde De Ridder-Symoens, Monique Vleeschouwers-Van Mekebeek.
Law, History, The Low Countries and Europe.
London: Hambledon Press, 1994.
ISBN 1852850884.
Hardback, stitch bound.
160x239x21mm.
xxiii,200pp.
English.
Unused bargain.This item £4.50
509g.
R.C. Van Caenegem is the successor of Henri Pirenne and of F.L. Ganshof at the University of Ghent. This volume was issued in place of a conventional festschrift: it collects several of Van Caenegem's essays, some published in English for the first time, and reflects his main interests over his career: the Common Law in England and Customary Law in the Low Countries; the differences between institutional development in England and in the rest of Europe; and the forces making for autocratic as opposed to representative government. A number of pieces discuss the nature of history itself: how it compares with the sciences and what it can teach us. Two essays commemorate the lives and work of Pirenne and Ganshof.
Contents:
Bibliography of Van Caenegem;
History & experiment;
Modern historiography - a science without experiment;
Clio & the humanities - alma mater & prodigal sons?;
Reflections on the history of England;
Parliament - a European deviation?;
Sources of Flemish history in the Liber Floridus;
Customary law of 12th-c. Flanders;
Ghent revolt of 1128;
The pacification of Ghent;
Bookish law & customary law - Roman law in the southern Netherlands in the late Middle Ages;
Witchcraft in the Low Countries;
Chivalrous ideals & religious feeling;
Pirenne - medievalist & historian of Belgium;
F. L. Ganshof.
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