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001 2011041593
003 DLC
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008 111005s2012 enk 000 0 eng
010 $a 2011041593
020 $a9781107014497 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aK140$b.M45 2012
082 00 $a340.072/2$223
084 $aLAW060000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aMaking legal history :$bapproaches and methodology /$cedited by Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1201
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"Drawing together leading legal historians from a range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the contributors explore the approaches, methods and sources that together form the basis of their research and shed light on the complexities of researching into the history of the law. By exploring the challenges posed by visual, unwritten and quasi-legal sources, the difficulties posed by traditional archival material and the novelty of exploring the development of legal culture and comparative perspectives, the book reveals the richness and dynamism of legal history research"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Drawing together leading legal historians froma range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the contributors explore the approaches,methods and sources that together formthe basis of their research and shed light on the complexities of researching into the history of the law. By exploring the challenges posed by visual, unwritten and quasi-legal sources, the difficulties posed by traditional archival material and the novelty of exploring the development of legal culture and comparative perspectives, the book reveals the richness and dynamism of legal history research"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings; Foreword: reflections on 'doing' legal history Sir John Baker; 1. Editing law reports and doing legal history: compatible or incompatible projects Paul Brand; 2. The indispensability of manuscript case notes to eighteenth-century barristers and judges James Oldham; 3. Judging the judges: the reputations of nineteenth century judges and their sources Patrick Polden; 4. Benefits and barriers: the making of Victorian legal history Chantal Stebbings; 5. The historical turn in late nineteenth-century American legal thought David M. Rabban; 6. The methodological debates in German speaking Europe (1960-1990) Marcel Senn; 7. Exploring the minds of lawyers: the duty of the legal historian to write the books of non-written law Dirk Heirbaut; 8. Comparative legal history: a methodology David Ibbetson; 9. 'They put to the torture all the ancient monuments': reflections on making eighteenth-century Irish legal history Sean Donlan; 10. The politics of historiography and the taxonomies of the colonial past: law, history and the tribes Paul McHugh; 11. Lay legal history Wilf Prest; 12. Antiquarianism and legal history Michael Stuckey; 13. Re-examining King John and Magna Carta: reflections on reasons, methodology and methods Jane Frecknall-Hughes; 14. Visual sources: mirror of justice or 'through a glass darkly'? Anthony Musson; 15. Sanctity, superstition and the death of Sarah Jacob Richard Ireland.
650 0 $aLaw$xHistoriography.
650 7 $aLAW / Legal History.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aMusson, Anthony,$d1966-
700 1 $aStebbings, Chantal.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/14497/cover/9781107014497.jpg