An Original Handwritten Letter Signed by Historian and Novelist James Anthony Froude to Henry James Sumner Maine and His Reply to the Inner Page
1877026971UK 1877. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. An Original Handwritten Letter Signed by Historian and Novelist James Anthony Froude to Henry James Sumner Maine and His Reply to the Inner Page. Dated 1877. A brief letter to discussing Edward Gibbons and a reply by Maine to tell Froude he has been elected a member of the club. James Anthony Froude 1818-1894 was an English historian novelist biographer and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement Froude intended to become a clergyman but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith drove him to abandon his religious career. Froude turned to writing history becoming one of the best-known historians of his time for his History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Sir Henry James Sumner Maine 1822-1888 was a British Whig comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in his book Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract." According to the thesis in the ancient world individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional groups while in the modern one in which individuals are viewed as autonomous agents they are free to make contracts and form associations with whomever they choose. Because of this thesis Maine can be seen as one of the forefathers of modern legal anthropology legal history and sociology of law. Size is 177mm x 114mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Gum marks to rear blank. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17705 <br/> <br/> unknown
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