Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State

Alan Harding9780198219583, 019821958X

“The State” is the most powerful of political ideas but where does it come from? This broad-ranging new study traces the history of the word and the concept back to the systems of law and justice created by medieval kings and shows how legal institutions acquired political force.

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Table of contents :
(eBook) Oxford University Press – Medieval Law and the Foundations 2001.pdf……Page 0
EEn……Page 2
Preface……Page 7
Contents……Page 9
Abbreviations……Page 12
1 – Introduction. State: Word and Concept……Page 13
2 – Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Justice……Page 22
3 – The Courts of Lords and Townsmen……Page 55
4 – The Spread of the Organized Peace……Page 81
5 – The Judicial Systems of France and England……Page 121
6 – New High Courts and Reform of the Regime……Page 159
7 – The Legal Ordering of ‘the State of the Realm’……Page 203
8 – The Monarchical State of the Later Middle Ages……Page 264
9 – From Law to Politics: the Genesis of ‘the Modern State’……Page 307
Conclusion: Law and the State in History……Page 348
Bibliography……Page 353
Index……Page 381