Abstract
Especially in the last two decades there has been renewed interest in F.W. Maitland and his work. With the sole exception of Lord Acton, no other English historian has been more studied in the post-war years.1 Nevertheless a discussion of Maitland in the overall treatment of our present theme is not superfluous. We trust that we shall not be guilty of repeating earlier assertions, as our concern is with only three less publicized aspects of his work.
Now, it is but too probable that we are sadly deficient in the historic sense which it is the pride of this generation to have discovered in itself.
(F.W. Maitland, 1879)
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© 1978 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Blaas, P.B.M. (1978). Law and History: F.W. Maitland. In: Continuity and Anachronism. International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idees, vol 91. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9712-7_4
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