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 a " 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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