The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth...

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J. G. A. Pocock (The Johns Hopkins University)

The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law

A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century

J. G. A. Pocock (The Johns Hopkins University)

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English

Cambridge University Press
20 July 1987

Historiography; Constitution: government & the state; Law; Constitutional & administrative law

Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen to the study of law, and pointing out its political implication, Pocock shows how history's ground was laid for a more philosophical approach in the eighteenth century.

By: J. G. A. Pocock (The Johns Hopkins University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 650g
ISBN: 9780521316439
ISBN 10: 052131643X
Pages: 424
Publication Date: 20 July 1987
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface; Preface to the first edition; Part I. The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: 1. Introductory: the French prelude to modern historiography; 2. The common-law mind: custom and the immemorial; 3. The common-law mind: the absence of a basis of comparison; 4. The discovery of feudalism: French and Scottish historians; 5. The discovery of feudalism: Sir Henry Spelman; 6. Interregnum: the Oceana of James Harrington; 7. Interregnum: the first royalist reaction and the response of Sir Matthew Hale; 8. The Brady controversy; 9. Conclusion: 1688 in the history of historiography; Part II. The Ancient Constitution Revisited: A Retrospect from 1986: 10. Historiography and common law; 11. Civil War and interregnum; 12. Restoration, revolution and oligarchy; Index.