The Mirror of Justice : : Literary Reflections of Legal Crises / / Theodore Ziolkowski.
This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO.The Birth of Justice from the Spirit of Tragedy
- CHAPTER THREE. The Ambivalence toward Pagan Law
- CHAPTER FOUR.The Role of Rome
- CHAPTER FIVE.The Disenchantment with Customary Law
- CHAPTER SIX.The Reception of Roman Law in Germany
- CHAPTER SEVEN .European Variations
- CHAPTER EIGHT.Law and Equity I
- CHAPTER NINE.Law and Equity II
- CHAPTER TEN.The Attractions of Codification
- CHAPTER ELEVEN.The Modern Crisis of Law
- CHAPTER TWELVE. Twentieth-Century Legal Evolutions
- NOTES
- INDEX