An Historical Introduction to Private Law (Paperback)

1. The origins of contemporary private law 1789?1807; 2. Antecedents: the early Middle Ages c. 500?c.1100; 3. Europe and Romano-Germanic law c. 1100?c. 1750; 4. Enlightenment, natural law and the modern Codes: from the mid-eighteenth to the early-nineteenth century; 5. The nineteenth century: the interpretation of the Code and the struggle for law; 6. Statute, case law and scholarship; 7. Factors; General bibliography.