The moral world of the law edited by Peter Coss. - Cambridge [England] New York Cambridge University Press 2000. - xi, 262 p. 24 cm. - Past and present publications .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Peter Coss - - The language of law in Classical Athens / S.C. Todd - - The autonomy of Roman law / Andrew D.E. Lewis - - Local participation and legal ritual in early medieval law courts / Wendy Davies - - Due process versus the maintenance of order in European law: the contribution of the ius commune / Paul Hyams - - Inside the courtroom: lawyers, litigants and justice in England in the middle ages / Paul Brand - - Nemo mortalis cognitus vivit in evo' : moral and legal conflicts in a Florentine inheritance case of 1442 / Thomas Kuehn - - Law, litigants and the construction of 'honour': slander suits in early modern England / Martin Ingram - - Story - telling and the social imagery of religious conflict in nineteenth-century French law courts / Caroline Ford - - ' Their idea of justice is so peculiar' : Southern Rhodesia 1890-1910 / Diane Jeater - - Kenyatta's trials : breaking and making an African nationalist / John Lonsdale - - Conclusion / Chris Wickham.

1521640598 (hardback)

99-15978


Law and ethics.
Justice--Administration--Histoire--Europe
Justice, Administration of--Africa.
Justice, Administration of--Europe, Eastern.

K 247 .6 / .M67 2000