The East of the West. Harold J. Berman and Eastern Europe

  • During the late Middle Ages, the subject of Berman’s focus, the West, equalled a Europe whose overseas expansion had not yet begun. This recalls the "Europe of legal historians" as their attempt, efficiently caricatured by Dieter Simon, to determine the borders of the continent on the basis of a medieval state of affairs. Such a historical justification of geopolitical concepts is risky, but nonetheless common. In the Middle East, the borders of Biblical regions legitimize present or future frontiers. Berman shared the usual ideas of legal history as regards the modern being nothing else than a protraction or renewal of the old, when he identified the papal revolution of 1075 as the factor having durably impregnated western legal culture. ...

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Author:Tomasz Giaro
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-544550
DOI:https://doi.org/10.12946/rg21/193-197
ISSN:1619-4993
ISSN:2195-9617
Parent Title (Multiple languages):Rechtsgeschichte = Legal history
Publisher:Max-Planck-Inst. für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte
Place of publication:Frankfurt, M.
Contributor(s):Thomas Duve
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2013
Year of first Publication:2013
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2020/04/15
Volume:21
Page Number:6
First Page:193
Last Page:197
Note:
Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons cc-by-nc-nd 3.0
HeBIS-PPN:464128323
Institutes:Rechtswissenschaft / Rechtswissenschaft
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0