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The moral world of the law
- Title
- The moral world of the law / edited by Peter Coss.
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | K247.6 .M67 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Coss, Peter R.
- Description
- xi, 262 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The dominant theme of this book is the relationship between the moral environment of the courtroom and that of the society in which the court is situated." "The Moral World of the Law is based upon papers delivered at the conference of that name, sponsored by the journal Past & Present and held at the University of Birmingham in 1996"--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Past and present publications
- Subject
- Law and ethics > History
- Justice, Administration of > Europe > History
- Justice, Administration of > Africa > History
- Justice, Administration of
- Law and ethics
- Rechtspleging
- Ethiek
- Justice, Administration of > History
- Droit et morale > Histoire
- Justice > Administration > Histoire. > Europe
- Justice > Administration > Histoire. > Afrique
- Africa
- Europe
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Actes de congrès.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Peter Coss -- The language of law in Classical Athens / S.C. Todd -- The autonomy of Roman Law / Andrew D.E. Lewis -- Local participation and legal ritual in early medieval law courts / Wendy Davies -- Due process versus the maintenance of order in European law: the contribution of the ius commune / Paul Hyams -- Inside the courtroom: lawyers, litigants and justices in England in the later middle ages / Paul Brand -- 'Nemo mortalis cognitus vivit in evo': moral and legal conflicts in a Florentine inheritance case of 1442 / Thomas Kuehn -- Law, litigants and the construction of 'honour': slander suits in early modern England / Martin Ingram -- Story-telling and the social imagery of religious conflict in nineteenth-century French law courts / Caroline Ford -- 'Their idea of justice is so peculiar': Southern Rhodesia 1890-1910 / Diana Jeater -- Kenyatta's trials: breaking and making an African nationalist / John Lonsdale -- Conclusion / Chris Wickham.
- ISBN
- 0521640598
- 9780521640596
- 0521648335
- 9780521648332
- LCCN
- 99015978
- OCLC
- ocm41387533
- 41387533
- SCSB-9002826
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library