The ancient constitution and the feudal law : a study of English historical thought in the seventeenth century : a reissue with a retrospect

Abstract

Preface Preface to the first edition Part I. The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: 1. Introductory: the French prelude to modern historiography 2. The common-law mind: custom and the immemorial 3. The common-law mind: the absence of a basis of comparison 4. The discovery of feudalism: French and Scottish historians 5. The discovery of feudalism: Sir Henry Spelman 6. Interregnum: the Oceana of James Harrington 7. Interregnum: the first royalist reaction and the response of Sir Matthew Hale 8. The Brady controversy 9. Conclusion: 1688 in the history of historiography Part II. The Ancient Constitution Revisited: A Retrospect from 1986: 10. Historiography and common law 11. Civil War and interregnum 12. Restoration, revolution and oligarchy Index.

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