Download or read book Ancient Law and Modern Understanding written by Alan Watson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Law and Modern Understanding Alan Watson proposes that ancient law is relevant and important for understanding history, theology, sociology, and literature. "Law, though technical," he writes, "is not remote from scholarship on other matters, and law is a central element in society." From Homeric Greece to present-day Armenia, Watson examines law's influence. Without a sensitivity to technical legal language, scholars of literature or history miss much: the use of puns in Plautus, Sulla's claim that Julius Caesar was descended from a slave, the relationship between the Synoptic Gospels. Legal history is an essential tool for understanding society, Watson argues, but it must be applied with knowledge of how law moves from one society to the next, legal reliance on authority, juristic concern with apparent trivia, and the impact on legal growth.
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his preface, Maine defines his scope: "...the chief object of the following pages is to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in Ancient Law, & to point out the relation of these ideas to modern thought."
Download or read book Ancient Law Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas written by Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law its connection with the early history of society and its relation to modern ideas written by Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Sir Henry Sumner Maine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as a history of progress, Ancient Law is the enduring work of the 19th-century legal historian Henry Sumner Maine. Even those who have never read Ancient Law may find Maine's famous phrase "from status to contract" familiar. His narrative spans the ancient world, in which individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional groups, and the modern one, in which individuals are viewed as autonomous beings, free to make contracts and form associations with whomever they choose. Maine's dichotomy between status-based societies and contract-based societies is a variation on a theme that has absorbed the social sciences for a century: the distinction between Gemeinschaft (community) and Gesellschaft (society). This theme has been elaborated upon by such eminent scholars as Tonnies, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, and Parsons. Along with many lesser scholars, they have considered what we gained and what we lost when we left behind a social world held together by communal, primordial bonds, and adopted one based upon impersonal temporary agreements among individuals. Maine wrote Ancient Law to increase knowledge about the internal mechanics of developing societies. He felt a key objective was better understanding of how law develops over time. Failure to understand temporal processes in relation to legal development, he argues, leads to the creation of false dichotomies. The most important of these is the alleged division between the ancient and the modern, which Maine described as an "imaginary barrier" at which modern scholars feel they must stop and go no further. Maine's desire to breach this barrier led him to present this complex and richly nuanced analysis of legal evolution. This book will be of interest to historians, political philosophers, and those interested in the development of law.
Download or read book Ancient Laws and Modern Problems written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hugely influential book of 1861 remains a landmark work in the intellectual history of jurisprudence.
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ancient Law Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ancient Law Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relations to Modern Ideas written by Henry James Sumner Maine (Sir) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Sir Henry Sumner Maine and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry James Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.