Spring 2024

 

 

Medieval Studies 119

Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval Continental Europe

Charles Donahue Jr (Law School)


Harvard College/GSAS: 147748

Spring 2024 .

Meeting Time: M., W., at 4:30 – 5:59, and a weekly section for undergraduates to be arranged.

Offered concurrently in the Law School.


A survey of continental European constitutional and legal history from the fall of the Roman Empire to the “rise of absolutism” at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Focuses on the main expressions of European legal culture over this long period of time. In each period an effort is made to relate the types of law produced to the social, political, and religious history.

Note: Expected to be omitted in 2022–23.


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