The Constitutional History of England

'Constitutional history should, to my mind, be a history not of parties but of institutions, not of struggles but of results ...' F. W. Maitland's remarkable course of lectures provides the basic framework of English constitutional history in a brief, but original, scholarly and very readable form. His method is to take five crucial periods and to present in each a panoramic view of the processes of law and government; his attention is always fixed on the constitution as a growing fabric, as something devised and employed by live human beings. And in this work, as in all he subsequently wrote, Maitland shows a rare combination of high speculative power with exact knowledge of detail.

Author: Frederic William Maitland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 580
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 1.29d
ISBN: 9780521091374

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