Contents;
Introduction;
I. Law and the capitalist rise to power an overview;
1. The merchant as rebel;
2. The backdrop of the new legal institutions;
II. The merchants seek a place in the feudal order (1000 1200);
3. Introduction;
4. The crusades seizure of trade routes and spread of bourgeois ideology;
5. Venice and Amalfi between east and west;
6. Some origins of urban culture;
7. Transport by land and sea;
8. Popes and merchants;
9. The bourgeoisie in 1200
III. Bourgeois lawyers royal power and urban development (1200 1400)
10. Introduction;
11. Beaumanoir and others the theoreticians of a new order;
12. The merchant capital of Grasse;
13. Peasant rebellion and land law;
IV. The bourgeois ascendancy (1400 1600)
14. Introduction;
15. Thomas More and the destruction of the medieval vision;
16. Recasting the law of real property;
17. Contract a study of law and social reality. V. Bourgeois victory (1600 1804)
18. France the triumph of the third estate;
19. England the techniques of the common law;
VI. Insurgency and jurisprudence;
20. The development of legal ideology;
21. Leading schools of legal thought;
22. The jurisprudence of insurgency;
Afterword;
Appendix;
Foreword;
Bibliography;
Index.