RT Review
T1 [Rezension von: Law and religion in Ireland, 1700-1970]
JF A journal of church and state
VO 65
IS 2
SP 279
OP 281
A1 Kenny, David
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1852453885
AB 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 ...
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jcs/csad008