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 d...(展开全部)

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 d...(展开全部)

The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government. In this masterful history of monarchy, conceptions of law, and due process, Kenneth Pennington addresses that struggle and opens an entirely new vista in the study of Western legal tradition. Pennington investigates legal interpretations of the monarch's...(展开全部)

Not since the works of Lovejoy and Burt has a scholar attempted such a grand-scale inquiry into the idea of law as the vehicle of culture and social and moral thought. Donald Kelley’s major premise is that law and the theory and practice of jurisprudence—civil science—represent the most concrete efforts to find a human measure, a systematic practical philosophy broader than pol...(展开全部)

唐纳德•凯利，罗格斯大学历史系James Westfall Thompson教授，研究领域集中于欧洲史学史、欧洲思想史、法律史，著有Faces of History : Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder, The Descent of Ideas : The History of Intellectual History等专著，部分作品已被译为中文；曾任思想史国际学会会长、《观念史杂志》执行主编等社会职务。

Not since the works of Lovejoy and Burt has a scholar attempted such a grand-scale inquiry into the idea of law as the vehicle of culture and social and moral thought. Donald Kelley’s major premise is that law and the theory and practice of jurisprudence—civil science—represent the most concrete efforts to find a human measure, a systematic practical philosophy broader than pol...(展开全部)

唐纳德•凯利，罗格斯大学历史系James Westfall Thompson教授，研究领域集中于欧洲史学史、欧洲思想史、法律史，著有Faces of History : Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder, The Descent of Ideas : The History of Intellectual History等专著，部分作品已被译为中文；曾任思想史国际学会会长、《观念史杂志》执行主编等社会职务。

约翰·亨利·梅利曼，美国著名比较法学家，美国斯坦福大学斯韦策荣休讲座教授及艺术系荣休教授。纽约大学法律科学博士及法学硕士，圣母大学法律博士。1953年起任教于斯坦福大学法学院，1960年起任教授，1971年起任讲座教授。1980年起兼任斯坦大学艺术系教授。主要研究领域为比较法学及艺术与法律。

This 2006 book is a detailed and authoritative account of the last two centuries of the development of 'Western' medicine, a tradition now important everywhere in the world. It is written by leading experts who not only describe the most important people, events, and transformations, but give explanations for why medicine developed as it did, becoming as important as it has in ...(展开全部)

This 2006 book is a detailed and authoritative account of the last two centuries of the development of 'Western' medicine, a tradition now important everywhere in the world. It is written by leading experts who not only describe the most important people, events, and transformations, but give explanations for why medicine developed as it did, becoming as important as it has in ...(展开全部)