Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century

Name: Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century
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ISBN: 9780521316439

ISBN-10: 052131643X

ISBN-13: 9780521316439

Edition: 2nd 1987

Authors: J. G. A. Pocock

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Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen to the study of law, and pointing out its political implication, Pocock shows how history's ground was laid for a more philosophical approach in the eighteenth century.

Book details

List price: $37.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/24/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.06" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface


Preface to the first edition



The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law



Introductory: the French prelude to modern historiography



The common-law mind: custom and the immemorial



The common-law mind: the absence of a basis of comparison



The discovery of feudalism: French and Scottish historians



The discovery of feudalism: Sir Henry Spelman



Interregnum: the Oceana of James Harrington



Interregnum: the first royalist reaction and the response of Sir Matthew Hale



The Brady controversy



Conclusion: 1688 in the history of historiography



The Ancient Constitution Revisited: A Retrospect from 1986



Historiography and common law



Civil War and interregnum



Restoration, revolution and oligarchy


Index