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Title:

The moral world of the law / edited by Peter Coss.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

xi, 262 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Law and ethics--History.
Justice. Administration of--Europe--History.
Justice, Administration of--Africa--History.

Other Authors:

Coss, Peter R.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter Coss -- The language of law in Classical Athens / S.C. Todd -- The autonomy of Roman Law / Andrew D.E. Lewis -- Local participation and legal ritual in early medieval law courts / Wendy Davies -- Due process versus the maintenance of order in European law: the contribution of the ius commune / Paul Hyams -- Inside the courtroom: lawyers, litigants and justices in England in the later middle ages / Paul Brand -- 'Nemo mortalis cognitus vivit in evo': moral and legal conflicts in a Florentine inheritance case of 1442 / Thomas Kuehn -- Law, litigants and the construction of 'honour': slander suits in early modern England / Martin Ingram -- Story-telling and the social imagery of religious conflict in nineteenth-century French law courts / Caroline Ford -- 'Their idea of justice is so peculiar': Southern Rhodesia 1890-1910 / Diana Jeater -- Kenyatta's trials: breaking and making an African nationalist / John Lonsdale -- Conclusion / Chris Wickham.

Series:

Past and present publications

ISBN:

9780521640596 (hardback)
0521640598 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41387533

LCCN:

99015978

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)