Oxford handbook of European legal history

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The World Historical Significance of European Legal History: An Interim Report / James Q. Whitman -- Byzantine Law: The Law of the New Rome / Bernard Stolte -- Germanic Law / Karl Shoemaker -- Feudal Law / Dirk Heirbaut -- Western Canon Law in the Central and Later Middle Ages / Peter Clarke -- Structure of Medieval Roman Law: Institutions, Sources, and Methods / Jan Hallebeek -- Substance of Medieval Roman Law: The Development of Private Law / Thomas R�ufner -- Southern Europe (Italy, Iberian Peninsula, France) / Ant�onio Hespanha -- Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation / Mathias Schmoeckel -- High- and Late-Medieval Scandinavia: Codified Vernacular Law and Learned Legal Influences / Mia Korpiola -- The Invention of National Legal History / Joachim R�uckert -- The Beginnings of the English Common Law (to 1350) / Paul Brand -- Urban Law: the Law of Saxony and Magdeburg / Heiner L�uck -- Extra-legal and Legal Conflict Management among Long-distance Traders (1250-1650) / Albrecht Cordes, Philipp H�ohn -- Legal Scholarship: The Theory of Sources and Methods of Law / Jan Schr�oder -- Natural Law in Early Modern Legal Thought / David Ibbetson -- Law and the Protestant Reformation / John Witte Jr. -- Law of Property and Obligations: Neoscholastic Thinking and Beyond / Wim Decock -- Criminal Law: Before a State Monopoly / Massimo Meccarelli -- Civil Procedural Law, the Judiciary, and Legal Professionals / Alain Wijffels -- Jurisdiction, Political Authority, and Territory / Ulrike M�u�ig -- The Birth of European Legal History / Randall Lesaffer -- Public Law before (3z(BPublic Law(3y(B / Bernardo Sordi -- The Law of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation / Peter Oestmann -- French Law and its Expansion in the Early Modern Period / Serge Dauchy -- Spanish Law and its Expansion / Matthew Mirow -- Scandinavian Law in the Early Modern Period / Heikki Pihlajam�aki -- English Law and its Expansion / Ken MacMillan -- Russian Law in the Early Modern Period / Maryanna Muravyeva -- Colonial and Indigenous 'Laws' - The Case of Britain's Empires, Circa 1750-1850 / Mark Hickford -- Abandoning the Nationalist Framework: Comparative Legal History / Kjell �A Mod�eer -- The Age of Codification and Legal Modernization in Private Law / Jean-Louis Halp�erin -- Legal Formalism and its Critics / Hans-Peter Haferkamp -- The Constitutional State / Dieter Gosewinkel -- A More Elevated Patriotism: The Emergence of International and Comparative Law (Nineteenth Century) / Martti Koskenniemi, Ville Kari -- The Law of the Welfare State / Bruno Aguilera-Barchet -- The Law of Obligations: The Anglo-American Perspective / Michael Lobban -- Colonial Criminal Law and Other Modernities: European Criminal Law in the Nineteenth And Twentieth Century / Markus D. Dubber -- European Twentieth-Century Dictatorship and the Law / Michael Stolleis -- Communism and the Law / Yoram Gorlizki -- The Law of the European Union in Historical Perspective / Peter Lindseth -- Global Legal History: Setting Europe in Perspective / Thomas Duve -- Customary Law and the Influence of the Ius commune in High- and Late-Medieval East Central Europe / Mia Korpiola -- The Scottish Common Law: Origins and Development, ca.1124-ca.1500 / Andrew R C Simpson -- Ancient Greek Law / Michael Gagarin -- Early Roman Law And The West: A Reversal Of Grounds / Pier Giuseppe Monateri -- Classical and Post-Classical Roman Law: the Legal Actors and the Sources / Paul du Plessis -- Institutions of Ancient Roman Law / Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi.

This handbook provides a broad overview of the development of European legal history from Ancient Greece to the twenty-first century. It engages with current research questions in international scholarship, and, in addition to Europe's heartland, details the history of its geographical 'fringes', such as Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.

Specialized.