Writing of History and the Study of Law

Donald R. Kelley, Rutgers University, USA

• Contents: Introduction; Humanism and history; Tacitus Noster: The Germania in the Renaissance and Reformation; Johann Sleidan and the origins of history as a profession; History as a calling: the case of La Popelinière; Martyrs, myths and the massacre: the background of St. Bartholomew; History and the encylcopedia; Ancient verses on new ideas: legal tradition and the French historical school; Mythistory in the Age of Ranke; Robert Flint, historian of ideas; The science of anthropology: an essay on the Very Old Marx; Second nature: the idea of custom in European law, society and culture; Civil science in the Renaissance: the problem of interpretation; Jurisconsultus perfectus: the lawyer as Renaissance man; Men of law and the French Revolution; Index.

'..each of these essays contains material and insights that remain compelling and important.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXIX, No. 3