This chapter contains sections titled:

    The Fourteenth Century through a Legal Historian's Eyes: Socio‐economic Conflict and Crises of Values

    A Process of Liberation: The Rise of Macro‐individuals, Micro‐individuals. The rise of the Nation‐State

    Princes and the Law: The Kingdom of France in Detail, a Testing Ground for Modern Law and Politics

    The Kingdom of England in Detail: The Origins of the English Common Law and its Continuity with the Medieval Outlook

    An Ideological Break with the Past: Ploughing the Furrow of Individual Freedom. Humanism, the Reformation, Proto‐capitalism and the Scientific Revolution

    Religious Reform and the Legal System

    Legal Humanism and its Two Souls: The Rational Soul and the Historicist Soul

    Natural Law

    The Legal Enlightenment: Legalism and Legal Idolatry, the Age of Legal Absolutism

    The Age of Proprietary Individualism: Economic Liberalism and Legal Absolutism

    The Age of Constitutions: Modern Constitutional Thought between Myth and History

    The Kingdom of France in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Making of French Law

    The Kingdom of England: Constitutional Turbulence and Common Law Continuity

    The Legal Lessons of the French Revolution

    The Age of the Code

    French Codification of the Early Nineteenth Century in Detail

    Austrian Codification of the Nineteenth Century in Detail

    Law, Legal Scholarship and Legislative Practice in the Age of the Code

    The Law, Legal Scholarship and Legal Practice in the German‐Speaking Region during the Early Modern Period

    Law, Legal Scholarship and Legal Practice in the German‐Speaking Region during the Nineteenth Century. The Historicist School of Law and Pandectism. The Construction of the Legal System

    The Germanic Foundations of the Discipline of Public Law

    Pandectism and Germanistics: Towards the German Empire's Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch. A ‘Scientific’ Code: The BGB of 1896–1900

    A Peculiar Codification: The Swiss Civil Code of 1907

    Over‐legislation in France. The ‘Praetorian’ Power of Practical Jurisprudence. Intolerance and Proposals for a New Code: Raymond Saleilles and François Gény

    The Free Law Movement: A Legal Form of Modernism

    Legal Solidarity of the Late Nineteenth Century: The So‐Called Social Laws

    Legal Solidarity of the Late Nineteenth Century: So‐Called Legal Socialism

    The Origins of Comparative Law

    The Origins of Labour Law

    Commercial Law between Legislation, Scholarship and Practice

    The First Codification of Canon Law in 1917


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