A Cultural History of Law: Volumes 1-6

How have legal ideas and institutions affected Western culture? And how has the law itself been shaped by its cultural context? In a work spanning 4,500 years, these questions are addressed by 57 experts, each contributing an authoritative study of a theme applied to a period in history.

Supported by detailed case material and over 230 illustrations, the volumes examine trends and nuances of the culture of law in Western societies from antiquity to the present. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes.

This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover:-

• 1 - Antiquity (2500 BCE-500 CE)
• 2 - Middle Ages (500-1500)
• 3 - Early Modern Age (1500-1680)
• 4 - Age of Enlightenment (1680-1820)
• 5 - Age of Reform (1820-1920)
• 6 - Modern Age (1920-present)