Law and History: Concepts in Law, Volume 1. Historiography
- London: Routledge, 2017.
- xii, 412p.
978-1-138-96169-2
Textual and Contextual legal history Why legal history matters What is legal history a history of? Sociology, history and the 'internal' study of law Contextual thinking The challenges of comparative legal history History's living legacy The varieties of legal history Critical legal histories Public Law Maitland and Anglo-Saxon law The changing concept of a court The origins of common pleas and king's bench The medieval English court of chancery William I and the church courts Magna Carta and personal Land Law Henry II's aims in reforming England's land law The evolution of the common law English feudalism and estates in land Law of Obligations The history of the common law of contract Actions of covenant, 1200-1330