Law and Revolution

by Harold J. Berman

Book Overview

Harold Berman's masterwork narrates the interaction of evolution and revolution in the development of Western law. This new volume explores two successive transformations of the Western legal tradition under the impact of the sixteenth-century German Reformation and the seventeenth-century English Revolution, with particular emphasis on Lutheran and Calvinist influences. Berman examines the far-reaching consequences of these apocalyptic political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022300
• ISBN13: 9780674022300
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.6"