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The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century

By J. G. A. Pocock

Book information

Year
1987
ISBN
052131643X, 9780511571459, 9780521303521, 9780521316439
LCC
KD3938
Open Library ID
OL21498049M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2662425 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
424\420
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen to the study of law, and pointing out its political implication, Pocock shows how history's ground was laid for a more philosophical approach in the eighteenth century.

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