William Blackstone and the historians: Wilfrid Prest unravels myths perpetrated by historians about the great 18th-century lawyer.

From: History Today | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

WE ARE OFTEN exhorted to break down the barriers between the disciplines. So far as law and history are concerned, such urgings are almost redundant. Historians have long drawn upon legal records and texts as sources of evidence about individual and social experience, and legal argument frequently embodies much historical content.

Yet problems can arise when historians employ legal sources. The great legal historian F.W. Maitland (18501906) suggested that historians and lawyers operate on distinct wavelengths, using two different modes of argument which he characterized as ...

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