THE LAST THREE DECADES IN ANGLOSAXON HISTORIOGRAPHY. REFLECTIONS ON SOME EUROPEAN LEGAL HISTORY MANUALS

This essay discusses the main manuals on European legal history published in the English language during the past three decades. It highlights the academic importance of their respective authors and the general content of each work and addresses a noticeable gap in the majority. Such gap consists of the absence of sufficient and consistent discussions about the origins and significance of the English common law not just during the middle ages, but also throughout various other periods, even the modern age and contemporary times. Only one of them, recently translated into Spanish, provides a discussion much more systematic and satisfactory than the one found in the rest of books. This work is discussed in a bit more detail than the rest at the end of the essay.