The alphabet of law

Research report (imported) 2003 - Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

Authors
Kiesow, Rainer Maria
Departments
Europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Neuzeit; Öffentliches Recht, Rechtswissenschaftsgeschichte) (Prof. Dr. Michael Stolleis)
MPI für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt/Main
Summary
Both the expansion in the volume of knowledge and theoretical doubt about the possibility of imparting a structure to this knowledge spelled the end of what had been an important genre between 1750 and about 1900, namely the legal encyclopedia.

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