19th Century · English
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, by Henry Sumner Maine (1822–1888), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
Chapters
- 01Preface to the First Edition.prose
- 02Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, Lecture I.: New Materials for the Early History of Institutions.prose
- 03Lecture II.: The Ancient Irish Law.prose
- 04Lecture III.: Kinship as the Basis of Society.prose
- 05Lecture IV.: The Tribe and the Land.prose
- 06Lecture V.: The Chief and His Order.prose
- 07Lecture VI.: The Chief and the Land.prose
- 08Lecture VII.: Ancient Divisions of the Family.prose
- 09Lecture VIII.: The Growth and Diffusion of Primitive Ideas.prose
- 10Lecture IX.: The Primitive Forms of Legal Remedies, I.prose
- 11Lecture X.: The Primitive Forms of Legal Remedies, II.prose
- 12Lecture XI.: The Early History of the Settled Property of Married Women.prose
- 13Lecture XII.: Sovereignty.prose
- 14Lecture XIII.: Sovereignty and Empire.prose
In the atlas
fully mappedFigures91
Dr. Sullivan · Henry Sumner Maine · Edmund Spenser · Sir John Davis · Jeremy Bentham · Julius Caesar · St. Patrick · William Blackstone · John Austin · Sohm
Ideas91
Patria Potestas · Sovereignty · Brehon law · Law of Distress · Primogeniture · Tanistry · Borough English · Canon Law · Commendation · Common Law
Places27
India · Ireland · Rome · England · Russia · Scotland · France · Germany · Athens · North America
Groups73
Romans · Hindoos · Brahmins · Brehon lawyers · Irish Tribe · Scottish Highlanders · Analytical Jurists · Aryan race · Celts · The Church
Events17
Case of Gavelkind · Suttee · Anglo-Norman attempts at conquest · Bruce-Baliol Succession Dispute · Cattle-raiding · Codification of the laws of France · Council of Trent regulation of spiritual-relationship prohibitions · Danish piracies · Decision Abolishing Tanistry and Gavelkind · Enfranchisement of the Russian peasantry
Objects46
Senchus Mor · Book of Aicill · Ancient Laws of Ireland · Ancient Law · Brehon Law-Tracts · Corus Bescna · 'Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity in the Human Family' · Brehon Laws · Corpus Juris · Province of Jurisprudence Determined
208 citations · 150 themes · 800 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.