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Is legal history just writing a text?
- Source :
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Legal History Review . 2024, Vol. 92 Issue 1/2, p208-223. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Summary: The question, what constitutes the methodology of the legal history research, is answered in different ways. One is that it is the same as for general history: writing on history according to a set of rules which constitute its methodology, because in the end all research on history is just creating a text. It follows from this that legal history is a variation of history and belongs to history faculties, since there is no connection with legal methodology. It is maintained in this article that this view is based on too simple a view of history as science: there is not one methodology but various methodologies ('discourses', not only in history but in science in general), each with its own conditions and requirements. Legal history's discourse has a particular distinguishing element, viz. legal analysis and methodology, which sets it apart from history in general. Its natural place is consequently in law faculties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *LEGAL history
*HISTORIOGRAPHY
*DISCOURSE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00407585
- Volume :
- 92
- Issue :
- 1/2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Legal History Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 179340164
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1163/15718190-20241204