Author: Randall Lesaffer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-06-25

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0521877989

This historical introduction to the civil law tradition considers the political and cultural context of Europe's legal history from its Roman roots. Political, diplomatic and constitutional developments are discussed, and the impacts of major cultural movements, such as scholasticism, humanism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, on law and jurisprudence are highlighted.