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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828950703321

Autore

Caenegem R. C. van

Titolo

Law, history, the Low Countries, and Europe / / R.C. van Caenegem ; edited by Ludo Milis [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Rio Grande [Ohio] : , : Hambledon Press, , 1994

ISBN

1-283-20274-3

9786613202741

1-4411-1306-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

907/.2

Soggetti

History

Historiography

Law - Europe - History

Customary law - Europe - History

Benelux countries History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Bibliography of R.C. van Caenegem, 1951-94": p. [xiii]-xxiii.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface; Bibliography of R.C. Van Caenegem; 1 History and Experiment; 2 Modern Historiography: A Science without Experiment; 3 Clio and the Humanities: Alma Mater and Prodigal Sons?; 4 Reflections on the History of England; 5 Parliament: A European Deviation?; 6 The Sources of Flemish History in the Liber Floridus; 7 Considerations on the Customary Law of Twelfth-Century; 8 The Ghent Revolt of February 1128; 9 The Pacification of Ghent; 10 Bookish Law and Customary Law: Roman Law in the Southern; 11 Witchcraft in the Low Countries

12 Chivalrous Ideals and Religious Feeling13 Henri Pirenne: Medievalist and Historian of Belgium; 14 F.L. Ganshof; Index; Tabula Gratulatoria

Sommario/riassunto

R.C. Van Caenegem is the successor of Henri Pirenne and of F.L. Ganshof at the University of Ghent. These essays reflect Van Caenegem's main interests over his career: the Common Law in England and Customary Law in the Low Countries; the differences between institutional development in England and in the rest of Europe; and the forces making for autocratic as opposed to representative



government. A number of pieces discuss the nature of history itself: how it compares with the sciences and what it can teach us. Two essays commemorate the lives and work of Pirenne and Ganshof.