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The Origins of Cultural History: 3 – The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians

Isaiah Berlin

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Is There Such a Thing as Roman Law?

In the sixteenth century, for example, there is a kind of revolt against rome in england. This didn't occur with any degree of strength, because the roman law has never been accepted in englands. There wasn't the great force of roman law to be confuted. But in countries where rarly had made a certain d impression in he bos were aficially accepted. It's something which suits us. Its traditional law. Is something which has grown into our particular tradition. We are not romans of the third century a d and there is no reason for supposing that rRoman law has any particular application to us. Bor, as i say,

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