Praise of Rules. Social Crises and Science of Law in the Origins of Modern Europe

This book sheds a ray of light. It focuses on the legal categories clearly shaped in the 12th century (they were "dogmas" then), through the courage of those who dared to oppose the dominant "feudal and manorial system." Among many, jurists and law played a decisive role. For centuries it was a winning game.

Today, a question arises: do legal categories, reshaped from era to era, serve to free man from involuntary, casual, or arbitrary obligations and to form a shared social order? Do they serve to give a constant structure to the plurality of laws and to set a limit to the arbitrary acts of power?