The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century

The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century image
ISBN-10:

052131643X

ISBN-13:

9780521316439

Author(s): Pocock, J.G.A.
Edition: 2nd Revised ed.
Released: Apr 24, 1987
Format: Paperback, 424 pages
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Description:

Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen to the study of law, and pointing out its political implication, Pocock shows how history's ground was laid for a more philosophical approach in the eighteenth century.












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