“Historians have routinely divided European Legal history into many pieces. They distinguished an English from a Continental law and they often proceeded to describe national legal spheres even in periods, which pre-dated the emergence of nation-states. It was as if, once legal systems were nationalized in the late eighteenth century and in the nineteenth century, it was no longer possible to imagine a legal history that pre-dated the nation state or that, even after nation-states were formed, continued to be shared by the different European countries …” (more)
[Tamar Herzog, Legal History Blog, 5 January]
First posted 2019-01-06 06:39:33
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