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Legal Scholarship and Doctrines of Private Law, 13th–18th centuries

Robert Feenstra author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:12th Dec '96

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The emphasis in this present volume of Professor Feenstra’s studies lies on the post-medieval development of legal scholarship. The opening two studies are concerned with the University of Orléans in the 13th-14th centuries, but from there the centre of interest shifts to the early modern Netherlands. Two important themes are the teaching of law, especially at the legal faculties of Leyden and Franeker, and the doctrines of private law (especially property, contract, and succession). The figure of Hugo Grotius, his sources and his influence, dominate these articles.

'Robert Feenstra has provided his colleagues with a valuable resource by collecting his several occasional essays into a single accessible volume. Together they confirm the considerable importan[ce] of the Low Countries and particularly Leiden in the reception, transmission and development of the civil law in Europe, and Professor Feenstra’s own position as the leading historiographer and prosopographist of his learned predecessors in Holland and Northern Europe.' The American Journal of Legal History, Vol. XLII, No. 1

ISBN: 9780860786160

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 612g

344 pages