Political Theories of the Middle Age [1913]

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 34 1)>Gierke [1841-1921] was one of the most influential legal scholars of the 19th and 20th centuries. As a jurist he played an important role in the creation of Germany's 1900 Civil Code and the Weimar 1919 Constitution. As a legal historian he was one of the first to study the role of social groups and the importance of associations in German life. </span><em>Political Theories of the Middle Age</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 34 1)> is drawn from his definitive four-volume study on that subject </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 34 1)>Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 34 1)> [</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 34 1)>The</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 34 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 34 1)>German Law of Associations</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 34 1)>]. </span>Maitland held this work in the highest esteem not just for its command of sources but for its conceptual framework. As he states in his introductory essay which adds valuable insight into the nature of the state in Germany and England it creates a perspective in which the outlines are large the strokes are firm and medieval appears as an introduction to modern thought.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>lxxx 197 pp.</p>