J. G. A. Pocock (The Johns Hopkins University)

The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law

A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In clarifying the relation of the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen to the study of law, and pointing out its political implication, Pocock shows how history's ground was laid for a more philosophical approach in the eighteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9780521316439
• ISBN-10: 052131643X
• Artikelnr.: 21991213

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Preface to the first edition
Part I. The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: 1. Introductory: the French prelude to modern historiography
2. The common-law mind: custom and the immemorial
3. The common-law mind: the absence of a basis of comparison
4. The discovery of feudalism: French and Scottish historians
5. The discovery of feudalism: Sir Henry Spelman
6. Interregnum: the Oceana of James Harrington
7. Interregnum: the first royalist reaction and the response of Sir Matthew Hale
8. The Brady controversy
9. Conclusion: 1688 in the history of historiography
Part II. The Ancient Constitution Revisited: A Retrospect from 1986: 10. Historiography and common law
11. Civil War and interregnum
12. Restoration, revolution and oligarchy
Index.