Germanic or Roman? Western European Narratives of Legal Origins

For many centuries, the question whether law was Germanic or Roman in origins preoccupied jurists throughout Western Europe. Rather than assuming convergence, entanglements, and mixing, as would often be the case today, from the 17th and into the 20th century, these jurists set out to prove that the...

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Main Author: Tamar Herzog
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory 2020-01-01
Series:Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History
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Online Access:http://data.rg.mpg.de/rechtsgeschichte/rg28/rg28_018herzog.pdf