HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Secondary Source, Iron Curtain, Roman Law
5 Dec 2020
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Cultural movement of intellectuals that sought to mobilize the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge. Process of unification and harmonisation of the law. Each country had many courts with different legal systems. Control the local and regional courts. tried to codify customary law to gain more unity. Did not create new law, just recorded customs. Abolished 1900 in favour of the bgb. Based on natural law, central aspect/ aim : law should be codified in one central and exhaustive / exclusive system) Overdetailed originally only a secondary source to regional law. Rejected any form of institutionalisation or even a consistent social, political or cultural programme. Romanticism is a collective name for a complex of attitudes, ideas and artistic expressions. Portrayed as a reaction to the enlightenments focus on reason. Challenged the view that all nature was rational and intelligible. Eventually came to outrightly reject all eternal and universal lawsthe world is unpredictable and unintelligible.
