Upon its original publication in 1946, this work represented a new
approach to medieval studies, offering indispensable analysis to
the historian of legal, political and social ideas. Research into
the original sources leads the author through unexplored realms of
medieval thought. By contrasting contemporary opinions with those
of his central figure, Lucas de Penna, he comprehensively presents
the medieval idea of law - then regarded as the concrete
manifestation of abstract justice. The intensity of medieval
academic life is revealed in the heated controversies, whilst
medieval criminology foreshadows modern developments. A significant
discovery is the astonishingly great reliance which Continental
scholars placed upon English thought. A challenge to certain
current misconceptions, this book shows the resourcefulness of
medieval thinking and the extent to which modern ideas were
foreshadowed in the fourteenth century, a time when the ideas of
law and liberty were identical.
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