Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Making of Law in Europe -- PART ONE: Ancient Times -- 1. Roman Law: Now You See It, Now You Don't -- 2. The Creation of Latin Christendom -- PART TWO: The Early Middle Ages -- 3. An Age with No Jurists? -- 4. Lords, Emperors, and Popes around the Year 1000 -- PART THREE: The Later Middle Ages -- 5. The Birth of a European Ius Commune -- 6. The Birth of an English Common Law -- PART FOUR: The Early Modern Period -- 7. Crisis and Reaffirmation of Ius Commune -- 8. Crisis and Reinvention of Common Law -- 9. From Ius Gentium to Natural Law: Making European Law Universal I -- PART FIVE: Modernity -- 10. North American Developments -- 11. The French Revolution -- PART SIX: The Nineteenth Century -- 12. Codifying the Laws of Europe: Making European Law Universal II -- 13. Codifying Common Law -- Epilogue: A Market, a Community, and a Union -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index