Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural developments.

First English translation of one of our most important sources for Roman law, with an extensive commentary and detailed introduction.

Examines of the rise of constitutionalism from the "democratic strands" in the works of Aristotle and Cicero through the transitional moment between the medieval and the modern eras.

The first reliable annotated English translation, with original texts, of one of the central sources of the Western legal tradition.

Presents the first comprehensive study of the 'Byzantine Google' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century.

This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law, covering private, criminal and public law.