Add to ORKGDuring the same nineteenth century when the modern study of legal history got underway in Europe, from Savigny to the Codex Iuris Canonici of 1917, Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909), an ocean away and without a serious library in sight, undertook the study of several aspects of ecclesiastical and legal history that brought him into contact with canon law at virtually every turn. This talk will deal with Lea\u27s encounter with canon law - in and out of historical study proper - in the young and library-thin America of the 1850s and 60s. That is, I will focus on Lea\u27s early work - Superstition and Force (1866), An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy (1867), Studies in Church History (1869), and the beginning of his work on the various in...
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Any student of legal history who believes that the European ius commune played a meaningful part in ...
The author seeks to give a sweeping discussion the study of law starting with the primitive sources ...
Based on the lectures delivered at The University of Michigan March 12, 13, 16, 17, and 18, 1959, on...
During the same nineteenth century when the modern study of legal history got underway in Europe, fr...
Legal historian Charles Donahue mastered the method of reading historical legal texts in full interd...
The author has made this, as he says, book-sized topic into a compact sketch of the potential influe...
The modern Western legal tradition owes a great debt to the medieval canon law of the Church, severa...
Law is frozen history. In an elementary sense, everything we study when we study law is the report o...
In the United States, the dawn of the twenty-first century has ushered in a period of both transform...
In this swiftly moving age, with its revolutionary advances in so many diverse fields of activity, i...
The historical study of law is among the most important domains of global legal scholarship. Indeed,...
Protestants almost never called their ecclesiastical norms ‘canons.’ When Protestant jurists or the...
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"None of these studies have previously appeared in print except two, viz, those relating to the Unit...
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Any student of legal history who believes that the European ius commune played a meaningful part in ...
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