244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This book presents a fresh approach to the writing of legal history as an essentially textual enterprise. It argues that to write any history is to tell a story. In doing so, it appreciates the place not just of context and contingency in the history of law but also of humanity. Law is a human creation, for which reason it accommodates both reason and romance. Absent sensibility, it makes no... Read more
Introduction: Irony, Anecdote, and Fashion; 1. The Stuff of Dreams; 2. Novel Judgements; 3. Two Days in Bristol; 4.The Laws of Witchery
Biography
Ian Ward is Professor of Law at Newcastle University, UK.
