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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Order in the Archives: The Victorian Art of Legal History
Contributor:
Krueger, Christine L.
imprint:
University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL, 2015
Published in:
Critical Analysis of Law, 2 (2015) 2
Language:
Not determined
DOI:
10.33137/cal.v2i2.26082
ISSN:
2291-9732
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>English historical jurisprudence evolved in the context of nineteenth-century movements in Western historiography, but it cannot be understood without attention to the pioneers of archival historical research who brought order to the archives in the decades following the Public Records Act of 1838. In remarkable collaboration with legal professionals, historians and literary authors shaped not only the narratives of English legal history, but the very methods and materials of historical legal research. This lesser-known story, illustrated here by Thomas Carlyle and Mary Anne Everett Green, helped make possible not only historical jurisprudence, but our own multidisciplinary art of legal studies.</jats:p>