[Rezension von: Law and religion in Ireland, 1700-1970]
Legal history, as a subdiscipline, serves two masters. On the one hand, it serves the goals and methods of history, and—with the priorities of prevailing historiographies—seeks to add to the body of knowledge of that discipline. On the other hand, legal history is often produced by and for lawyers (...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Review |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2023
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A journal of church and state
Jahr: 2023, Band: 65, Heft: 2, Seiten: 279-281 |
| Rezension von: | Law and religion in Ireland, 1700 - 1970 (Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) (Kenny, David)
Law and religion in Ireland, 1700-1970 (Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) (Kenny, David) Law and religion in Ireland, 1700-1970 (Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2021) (Kenny, David) |
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Religion
/ Recht
/ Katholische Kirche
/ Irland
/ Geschichte 1700-1970
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| IxTheo Notationen: | KBF Britische Inseln SA Kirchenrecht; Staatskirchenrecht |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
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| Zusammenfassung: | Legal history, as a subdiscipline, serves two masters. On the one hand, it serves the goals and methods of history, and—with the priorities of prevailing historiographies—seeks to add to the body of knowledge of that discipline. On the other hand, legal history is often produced by and for lawyers (practicing, academic, or both), and lawyers are, almost to a person, practical, and generally (though increasingly less so) monodisciplinary in training and background. This can make some exercises in legal history a highly instrumental affair: history insofar as it is useful to contemporary law. The latter priority can risk the quality of the former. Legal historians are often, like Foucault, writing a history of the present, a history we can use ... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csad008 |