John Baker's “English Law and the Renaissance” is perhaps the most significant paper in English legal history to appear in the Cambridge Law Journal. In many ways it was a response to, and development from, F. W. Maitland's Rede Lecture with the same title, published some 80 years previously. Baker's paper marks a punctuation in his study of English law under the early Tudors, a subject which he has made his own, culminating in his magisterial sixth volume of The Oxford History of the Laws of England. In addition, it marked a major break with the earlier orthodoxy that English law in this period was fundamentally distinct from the law which was developing on the European continent. The present paper explores both of these themes.

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英国法律史的复兴

约翰贝克的“英国法律与文艺复兴”也许是英国法律史上最重要的论文，出现在剑桥法律杂志. 在许多方面，它是对大约 80 年前出版的 FW Maitland 的同名 Rede Lecture 的回应和发展。贝克的论文标志着他在早期都铎王朝时期的英国法律研究中的一个标点符号，这是他自己创造的一个主题，最终在他权威的第六卷牛津英国法律史. 此外，它标志着这一时期英国法律与欧洲大陆正在发展的法律根本不同的早期正统观念的重大突破。本论文探讨了这两个主题。