Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition

by HJBerman (Author)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $57.79

  The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the papal revolution, when the Western church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings, and feudal lords. Out of this upheaval came the Western idea of integrated legal systems developed over generations and centuries.