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experienced codification fever. Starting with France and concluding with Germany, by the end of the century the laws of most European polities, E

experienced codification fever. Starting with France and concluding with Germany, by the end of the century the laws of most European polities, England being the exception, w

experienced codification fever. Starting with France and concluding with Germany, by the end of the century the laws of most European polities, E

experienced codification fever. Starting with France and concluding with Germany, by the end of the century the laws of most European polities, E

experienced codification fever. Starting with France and concluding with Germany, by the end of the century the laws of most European polities, E

THE PREMISE OF ius commune was the existence of a single community, Christian and Roman, i

hose scholars who shifted their focus from law, medicine, and theology to the study of the arts (grammar, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy, and rhetoric) became known as humanists.

humanists insisted that law was always a product of the particular circumstances of the society that created it.

Humanists therefore argued that the basic methodological assumptions of ius commune jurists could no longer hold water.

Historians have long debated whether humanists’ criticism made a difference. Those who suggested that it did point to the emergence of a new legal method. Identified as mos gallicus (the French manner) to distinguish it from the existing method (now baptized as the mos italicus, the Italian manner), this new method was practiced mostly by French legal humanists.2