@article{1478221,
      recid = {1478221},
      author = {Berman, Harold J., },
      title = {Law and Revolution : The Impact of the Protestant  Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition /},
      pages = {1 online resource (544 p.)},
      abstract = {Harold Berman's masterwork narrates the interaction of  evolution and revolution in the development of Western law.  This new volume explores two successive transformations of  the Western legal tradition under the impact of the  sixteenth-century German Reformation and the  seventeenth-century English Revolution, with particular  emphasis on Lutheran and Calvinist influences. Berman  examines the far-reaching consequences of these apocalyptic  political and social upheavals on the systems of legal  philosophy, legal science, criminal law, civil and economic  law, and social law in Germany and England and throughout  Europe as a whole. Berman challenges both conventional  approaches to legal history, which have neglected the  religious foundations of Western legal systems, and  standard social theory, which has paid insufficient  attention to the communitarian dimensions of early modern  economic law, including corporation law and social welfare.  Clearly written and cogently argued, this long-awaited,  magisterial work is a major contribution to an  understanding of the relationship of law to Western belief  systems.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478221},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674020863},
}