English constitutional law in Austrian popular legal literature of the nineteenth century |
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| Authors: | Gerald Kohl |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Legal and Constitutional History, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, Austria |
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| Abstract: | ‘Popular legal literature’ is a source that has been widely disregarded by historians as well as legal historians until the present day. The following article provides an outline with basic information about this literary genre and its typology with regard to its motivation, style, contents and authors. After this general overview the article then proceeds to show the nature of the information about English constitutional law that can be evidenced from Austrian popular legal literature books of the nineteenth century, and comparisons are made with other sources. |
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