Maitland: State, Trust and Corporation

Informationen zum Autor Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906): late Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Cambridge, arguably the greatest of all British historians, and a major voice in political theory. David Runciman is a university Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Cambridge and author of Pluralism and the Personality of the State (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Magnus Ryan is a lecturer in Late Medieval Studies at the Warburg Institute, London, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Klappentext The essays collected in State, Trust and Corporation contain the reflections of England's greatest legal historian on the legal, historical and philosophical origins of the idea of the state. All written in the first years of the twentieth century, Maitland's essays are classics both of historical writing and of political theory. They contain a series of profound insights into the way the character of the state has been shaped by the non-political associations that exist alongside it, and their themes are of continuing relevance today. This is the first new edition of these essays for sixty years, and the first of any kind to contain full translations, glossary and expository introduction. It has been designed to make Maitland's writings fully accessible to the non-specialist, and to make available to anyone interested in the idea of the state some of the most important modern writings in English on that subject. Zusammenfassung F. W. Maitland (1850–1906) is perhaps the most celebrated English historian since Gibbon. This book is a collection of his later essays about the historical origins of the state, and is designed to bring them to the attention of political theorists and political scientists, as well as historians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors' introduction; Note on the text; Bibliographical notes; Biographical notes; Glossary of technical terms; Preface; The essays: 1. The corporation sole; 2. The Crown as corporation; 3. The unincorporate body; 4. Moral personality and legal personality; 5. Trust and corporation; Index....

Produktdetails

• Autoren: F. W. Maitland, Frederic William Maitland
• Mitarbeit: David Runciman (Herausgeber), Runciman David (Herausgeber), Magnus Ryan (Herausgeber), Ryan Magnus (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 13.11.2003
• EAN: 9780521820103
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82010-3
• Seiten: 202
• Serien: Cambridge Texts in the History; Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought; Cambridge Texts in the History
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, CE period up to c 1500, Political science & theory, British & Irish history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Political science and theory, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Constitution: government & the state, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Constitution: government and the state