R C Van Caenegem

Biographic Data

ID1073565
NAMER C Van Caenegem
GIVEN NAMESR C
FAMILY NAMEVan Caenegem
SIGNATUREVAN CAENEGEM R C
AFFILIATIONSGhent University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS35
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1960
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX2

  • Women in twelfth-century English lawsuits

    R C Van CaenegemARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…2018

    Notwithstanding that the role of women in law courts could be expected to be modest for the Middle Ages, a perusal of lawsuits of the 12th century produced even a lesser proportion than expected

  • Counterfactual History and the First World War

    Open AccessR C Van CaenegemARTICLEEuropean Review2017References: 1

    In the current article the author aims to answer four specific questions. (1) What would have happened if Austria and Serbia had not gone to war in July 1914, which implies an exercise in counterfactual history, and the study of the probable outcome if events had taken a different course? (2) What exactly was Austria’s war aim? (3) What precisely was Britain’s war aim? (4) What would have happened if Britain had stayed out of the continental war

  • Lex and consuetudo in English lawsuits from the Conquest to Glanvill

    R C Van CaenegemARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…2014

    Medieval people wrote and copied numerous law books, custumals and borough charters, which, however, were seldom quoted or even referred to in the law courts. Many legal historians have remarked on this phenomenon in general terms, but the present author has systematically looked for such references in English lawsuits of Norman and Angevin times. He found a number of cases where local or national customary law was mentioned, and others where spe…

  • Historical Reflections on Progress and Tradition

    Open AccessR C Van CaenegemARTICLEEuropean Review2014References: 2

    Reflecting on the tension between progressives and traditionalists in present-day Egypt, the author surveys comparable conflicts in the European past. In nineteenth-century Britain and Belgium the struggle between liberals and conservatives dominated public life. In eighteenth-century France the progressive forces of the Enlightenment were for a long time in bitter conflict with the traditional defenders of King and Church, until the latter were …

  • The European Nation State: A Great Survivor

    Open AccessR C Van CaenegemARTICLEEuropean Review2013References: 1

    Today Europe consists of a great number of nation states – some large like Germany, some small like Latvia – where nationhood coincides with statehood. This situation is the result of political upheavals, such as the Italian resorgimento and the waning of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century, and the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the collapse of the Soviet Union and Communist Yugoslavia in the twentieth century. The pro…

  • Historical Reflections on Islam and the Occident

    Open AccessR C Van CaenegemARTICLEEuropean Review2012References: 3

    The media and political scientists create the impression that the world of Islam and the Occident are two totally different civilizations. The author shows, on the contrary, that life in the 14 centuries of the Christian Middle Ages and the Ancien Régime – Old Europe – was in many ways similar to that of the area's Muslim neighbours, and only moved into the modern world with the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The author also examines the chanc…

  • Sound Ideas and Absurd Consequences: Reflections of a Legal Historian

    Open AccessR C Van CaenegemARTICLEEuropean Review2010References: 1

    During the 60 years that I have been writing – and speculating – on public law (my first book on medieval criminal law came out in 1954), I have been repeatedly struck by a particular phenomenon to which I would now like to draw attention: that sound ideas and useful innovations eventually – when relentlessly taken to their extreme consequences and pushed along the abstract lines of their inner logic – lead to absurd or even nefarious results, de…

  • Chance and Legal History

    R C Van CaenegemARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…2007

    The author presents four cases, where he analyses the role of chance. (1) An accident of chronology caused a dynamic king, interested in legal matters, to rule in England in the second half of the twelfth century. Consequently a modernized English common law was established before the neo-Roman law of the Schools and the officialities could intervene. (2) Finding the complete Corpus iuris civilis in northern Italy in the second half of the eleven…

  • The unification of European law: A pipedream

    Open AccessR C Van CaenegemARTICLEEuropean Review2006

    The unification of European law – if it is ever achieved – belongs to the future, but much of this present article will be devoted to the past. This makes me look like the ancient Roman king Janus, upon whom the god Saturn bestowed the gift of seeing the future as well as the past, which led to his famous representation, in his Roman temple, as a man with two faces. As a professional historian I am, of course, concerned with past centuries, but t…

  • Judge and lawgiver in Anglo-American history

    Open AccessR C Van CaenegemARTICLEEuropean Review2003

    Politicians are not expected to interfere with the judiciary. Parliament passes laws and the courts interpret and apply them. On the Continent, judicial freedom is restricted by codification, which was avoided in England where greater judicial flexibility survived. In the United States the Restatement of the Law was a move in the direction of codification. Also in that country, judicial review of the constitutionality of the laws gave the judges …

  • European Law in the Past and the Future: Unity and Diversity over Two Millennia

    Open AccessR C Van Caenegem, R C CaenegemBOOKEuropean Law in the Past and the…2001

    As Europe moves towards economic and political unification, many wonder why legal unification makes so little headway. In this concise but wide-ranging book, R. C. van Caenegem considers the historical reasons behind this legal diversity. He stresses the importance of the adoption on the Continent - but not in England - of the classical law of the Romans, and shows how the rise of the nation states led to a multitude of national codes of law. The…

  • The Modernity of Medieval Law

    R C Van CaenegemARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…2000

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  • Good government and the historian

    Open AccessR C Van CaenegemARTICLEEuropean Review1998References: 1

    The main constitutions with which medieval and modern Europe has experimented in the search for the best form of government are surveyed: most of them have now been relegated to the museum of legal antiques. However, constitutionalism and parliamentarianism proved to be permanent and are still highly valued acquisitions. The merits of a written constitution are discussed. This is followed by a presentation of the role of the nation state and its …

  • Aantekeningen Bij Het Middeleeuwse Gewoonterecht

    R C Van CaenegemARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…1996

    Customary law is both important and difficult to comprehend. In medieval society it was paramount. It lived in people's memory and manifested itself in ritual gestures and words, and through adjudication. One competitor was legislation which, to the modem lawyer, stands in clear contrast to custom. However, medieval terms such as leges consuetudinariae show that there was at the time no absolute opposition between them. Another competitor was the…

  • An Historical Introduction to Western Constitutional Law

    M N S Sellers, Mortimer Sellers et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1996

    Journal Article An Historical Introduction to Western Constitutional Law Get access Van Caenegem R.C., An Historical Introduction to Western Constitutional Law. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x, 338 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Mortimer Sellers Mortimer Sellers University of Baltimore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 40, Issue 4, October 1996, Pa…

  • An Historical Introduction to Western Constitutional Law

    Open AccessR C Van CaenegemBOOKHistorical Introduction to…1995Cited by: 9References: 3

    The constitutional question is of paramount importance in the political and nationalist agenda of late twentieth-century Europe. Professor van Caenegem's new book addresses fundamental questions of constitutional organisation: democracy versus autocracy, unitary versus federal organisation, pluralism versus intolerance, by analysing different models of constitutional government through an historical perspective. The approach is chronological: con…

  • Democratie En Rechtsstaat in Het Twaalfde-Eeuwse Graafschap Vlaanderen

    R C Van CaenegemARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…1993

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  • Roberto Feenstra

    Ph Godding, R C Van Caenegem et al.ARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…1990

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  • Reflexions On Rational and Irrational Modes of Proof in Medieval Europe

    R C Van CaenegemARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…1990

  • De Keure Van Sint-Omaars Van 1127

    R C Van CaenegemARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…1982

  • On the Laws and Customs of England. Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne

    R C Van Caenegem, Morris S Arnold et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1982Cited by: 26

    Journal Article On the Laws and Customs of England. Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne Get access Arnold M. S. Green Thomas A. Scully Sally A. White Stephen D., eds., On the Laws and Customs of England. Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne. Studies in Legal History. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press in Association with the American Society for Legal History, 1981. xx, 426 pp. Ill. $25.00. R. C. van Caenegem R. C. van Caenegem …

  • In Memoriam F.L. Ganshof (1895-1980)

    R C Van CaenegemARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…1981

  • Law in the Medieval World

    R C Van CaenegemARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…1981

  • Nouvelles Diverses

    R C Van CaenegemARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…1980

  • The English Common Law, a Divergence From the European Pattern

    R C Van CaenegemARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…1979