ON HAROLD J. BERMAN’S (REVOLUTIONARY) HYPOTHESIS
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O pewnej (rewolucyjnej) hipotezie Harolda J. Bermana – prawo i nauka w średniowieczu
ON HAROLD J. BERMAN’S (REVOLUTIONARY) HYPOTHESIS – LAW AND SCIENCE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Author(s): Marcin Leszczyński
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, History of Law, Middle Ages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: revolution; (dis)continuity dispute; European legal tradition; time; medieval science;

Summary/Abstract: In his book “Law & Revolution” Harold J. Berman ventures an opinion that certain sociopolitical transformations of XIth and XIIth century had a formative character for subsequent Western history. Emerging profession of lawyer (decretists) played a fundamental role in that upheaval, called by Berman a revolution. Moreover, Berman is trying to connote that with the creation of universities and, more generally, modern science. In my article I will try to investigate different meanings of revolution in Berman’s argument and its general structure.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 75
  • Page Range: 99-120
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish
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