Law and Revolution, II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal TraditionHarvard University Press, 2009 - 544 pages Berman's masterwork narrates the interaction of evolution and revolution in the development of Western law. This volume explores two successive transformations of the Western legal tradition under the impact of the 16th-century German Reformation and the 17th-century English Revolution, with particular emphasis on Lutheran and Calvinist influences. |
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