TY - JOUR
AU - Smith, Munroe
AB - REVIEWS. M.A., Reader in English Law in the University of Oxford. New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1898.—xiii, 352 pp. Mr. Jenks has not attempted to write, or even to outline, the political and legal history of Europe in the Middle Ages; but he has treated, in a readable and often brilliant fashion, some phases of the movement that interest him and that serve to illustrate his views regarding institutional evolution. His general theory is largely a blend of Maine’s idea of progress from status to contract and of Spencer’s idea of progress from the military to the industrial state; but the combination of these ideas, and the modifications necessi­ tated by fuller knowledge of early institutions, have produced a theory that is distinct from Maine’s or Spencer’s. The author does not start, as did Maine, with the household. He treats the question of the earliest relation between household and clan as “ one which the present state of our knowledge does not enable us to answer” (p. 161); he does not notice the evidence that has recently been gathered to show the early predominance of the clan in many matters that are afterwards household affairs, like marriage, guardianship 
TI - Law and Politics in the Middle Ages, by Edward Jenks
JO - Political Science Quarterly
DO - 10.2307/2140080
DA - 1899-03-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/law-and-politics-in-the-middle-ages-by-edward-jenks-usHR5CMmjj
SP - 141
EP - 143
VL - 14
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -