The formation and transmission of Western legal culture

Serge Dauchy, Georges Martyn, Anthony Musson, Alain Wijffels (eds)

Springer - Berlin

2016

This volume surveys 150 law books of fundamental importance in the history of Western legal literature and culture. The entries are organized in three sections: the first dealing with the transitional period of fifteenth-century editions of medieval authorities, the second spanning the early modern period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and the third focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.