[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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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2023, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 279-281 |
| Review of: | 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) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Law
/ Catholic church
/ Ireland
/ History 1700-1970
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBF British Isles SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | 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 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csad008 |