A History of Private Law in Europe: With Particular Reference to Germany

by Franz Wieacker

In this book, Wieacker tells us the story of European Legal Thought. He begins in the high middle ages and describes how the Glossators started to apply methodical criticism and exegesis to the digest of Justinian, thus creating European jurisprudence. In telling the history of European legal thinking from its origins in Medieval Bologna down to the present day, Wieacker's is a quite stunning achievement. It thus eluciates the intellectual conditions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198258615
• ISBN13: 9780198258612
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"