The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era : Historical Vision and Legal Change.

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Well after the process of codification had begun elsewhere in nineteenth-century Europe, ancient Roman law remained in use in Germany, expounded by brilliant scholars and applied in both urban and rural courts. The survival of this flourishing Roman legal culture into the industrial era is a familiar fact, but until now little effort has been made to explain it outside the province of specialized legal history. James Whitman seeks to remedy this neglect by exploring the broad political and cultural significance of German Roman law, emphasizing the hope on the part of German Roman lawyers th.

Preface; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; CHAPTER I; Law in the Fourth Monarchy of Melanchthon; CHAPTER II; Decline of the Roman-Law Corporate Tradition in the Eighteenth Century ; CHAPTER III; Imperial Revival in the First Romantic Decade and the Discovery of the Antonines ; CHAPTER IV; Imperial Tradition and the New Professoriate after 1814; CHAPTER V; High Cultural Tradition as an Instrument of Reform: The Professoriate and the Agrarfrage ; CHAPTER VI; Cultural Crisis and Legal Change after 1840; Conclusion; Glossary of Terms and Phrases; Works Cited; Index.

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