Harold Berman's masterwork narrates the interaction of evolution
and revolution in the development of Western law. This new volume
explores two successive transformations of the Western legal
tradition under the impact of the sixteenth-century German
Reformation and the seventeenth-century English Revolution, with
particular emphasis on Lutheran and Calvinist influences. Berman
examines the far-reaching consequences of these apocalyptic
political and social upheavals on the systems of legal philosophy,
legal science, criminal law, civil and economic law, and social law
in Germany and England and throughout Europe as a whole.
Berman challenges both conventional approaches to legal history,
which have neglected the religious foundations of Western legal
systems, and standard social theory, which has paid insufficient
attention to the communitarian dimensions of early modern economic
law, including corporation law and social welfare.
Clearly written and cogently argued, this long-awaited,
magisterial work is a major contribution to an understanding of the
relationship of law to Western belief systems.
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