Making Legal History Approaches and Methodologies

Name: Making Legal History Approaches and Methodologies
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ISBN: 9781107014497

ISBN-10: 1107014492

ISBN-13: 9781107014497

Edition: 2012

Authors: Anthony Musson, Chantal Stebbings

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Drawing together leading legal historians from a 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, methods and sources that together form the basis of their research and shed light on the complexities of researching into the history of the law. By exploring the challenges posed by visual, unwritten and quasi-legal sources, the difficulties posed by traditional archival material and the novelty of exploring the development of legal culture and comparative perspectives, the book reveals the richness…

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List price: $149.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/26/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 330
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.09" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Chantal Stebbings is Professor of Law and Legal History in the University of Exeter. Her research is in the commercial legal history of the nineteenth century, with special reference to the law of taxation, trusts, and commercial property.



Introduction



Foreword: reflections on 'doing' legal history




Editing law reports and doing legal history: compatible or incompatible projects




The indispensability of manuscript case notes to eighteenth-century barristers and judges




Judging the judges: the reputations of nineteenth century judges and their sources




Benefits and barriers: the making of Victorian legal history




The historical turn in late nineteenth-century American legal thought




The methodological debates in German speaking Europe (1960-1990)




Exploring the minds of lawyers: the duty of the legal historian to write the books of non-written law




Comparative legal history: a methodology




'They put to the torture all the ancient monuments': reflections on making eighteenth-century Irish legal history




The politics of historiography and the taxonomies of the colonial past: law, history and the tribes




Lay legal history




Antiquarianism and legal history




Re-examining King John and Magna Carta: reflections on reasons, methodology and methods




Visual sources: mirror of justice or 'through a glass darkly'?




Sanctity, superstition and the death of Sarah