O kierunkach rozwoju prawa karnego na ziemiach polskich w dobie średniowiecza wobec tradycji i tendencji europejskich
On the Directions of Development of Criminal Law in the Polish Lands in the Middle Ages, in the Face of European Traditions and Tendencies

Summary/Abstract: The publication is an attempt to look at the history of law in Poland from the perspectiveof the development of European legal culture. The choice of the subject matter to be explored deter-mined the author’s methodological instruments, ultimately prompting him to consider comparativelegal studies as the basis for his research. At the outset, emphasizing the topicality of the problem inthe context of the progress of European integration, the author strove to present the history of crim-inal law in medieval Poland, highlighting both the original developmental features and the way inwhich they fit into universal tendencies, represented in the legal systems of other contemporarycountries of the Old Continent. In his final conclusions, he drew attention to the tendencies thatemerged at the end of the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the modern era, pointing to the grow-ing discrepancies in the directions of further development of law in Polish lands against the tenden-cies that began to dominate more and more clearly in the laws of most European countries at thattime. The author’s intention was not to discover America a few hundred years after Columbus, butto synthesize a multifaceted problem that could serve historical-legal reflection.

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