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Custom, Law, and Monarchy: A Legal History of Early Modern France
Custom, Law, and Monarchy explores how law evolved in early modern France, from an amalgam of customs, Roman and canon law, royal edicts, and judicial decisions, to the unified Civil Code of 1804. In exploring the history of this codification of law, Marie Seong-Hak Kim lays out a new way of understanding French history.
| Author(s) | By Marie Seong-Hak Kim (Professor of History, Professor of History, St Cloud State University, Minnesota). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 304 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 14 Oct 2021 |
| Availability | Available |
Custom, Law, and Monarchy explores how law evolved in early modern France, from an amalgam of customs, Roman and canon law, royal edicts, and judicial decisions, to the unified Civil Code of 1804. In exploring the history of this codification of law, Marie Seong-Hak Kim lays out a new way of understanding French history.
1: Introduction 2: Custom in Late Medieval France 3: The Redaction of Customs 4: The Reformation of Customs 5: La Coutume and la Legislation 6: The Idea of "Our French Law" 7: The Crown and the Constitution 8: De la coutume au Code civil 9
Marie Seong-Hak Kim is a historian and jurist. Her work concentrates on France, Korea, Japan, legal history, and comparative law. She is the recipient of the National Endowment of Humanities Fellowship, the Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant, and the Abe Foun
