Modern Private Law History (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: (German) F. Wieacker
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Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
Features: From the Middle Ages to the 1960s, Wieacker traces the origins of modern private law in A History of Modern Private Law—With a Focus on Germany, covering the status of the legal profession, the types of legal literature, judicial and legislative practices, as well as the philosophical and legal thought background. The work is broad in scope yet elegantly and finely narrated. With unwavering perseverance, masterful skill, and remarkable passion, Wieacker accomplished the following: to narrate a story of the development of European legal thought based on the sources of private law, from the medieval Bologna to the present. Another achievement of this classic work lies in its elucidation of the continuous interaction between legal thought and general philosophical thought, such as Scholasticism and medieval legal science, the Enlightenment and natural law, and classicism and Savigny's Historical School.