TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berman,Harold J.
TI  - Law and revolution: the formation of the Western legal tradition 
SN  - 0674517741
AV  - K150 .B47 1983
U1  - 340.09 22
PY  - 1983///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Law
KW  - History
KW  - Derecho
KW  - Historia
N1  - Include index
N2  - The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, when the Western church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings, and feudal lords. Out of this upheaval came the Western idea of integrated legal systems consciously developed over generations and centuries. Harold J. Berman describes the main features of these systems of law, including the canon law of the church, the royal law of the major kingdoms, the urban law of the newly emerging cities, feudal law, manorial law, and mercantile law. In the coexistence and competition of these systems he finds an important source of the Western belief in the supremacy of law
ER  -