Regarding Untimeliness: Medieval Legal History and Modern Law
Karl Shoemaker
This essay offers an account of the task medieval legal history, suggesting that its importance lies in ability to recognize and explain most alien features our past. In so doing, discipline history makes what is intelligible while preserving essential differences. It delicate difficult engaging with past without judging by needs present, taking own limited perspective be universal, but also relegating a mere object antiquarian curiosity, thus cutting off possibility understanding relation ourselves.
Critical Analysis of Law