HANDBUCH ZUR GESCHICHTE DES NOTARIATS DER EUROPÄISCHEN TRADITIONEN. Ed by Matthias Schmoeckel and Werner Schubert Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (www.nomos-druck.de), Rheinische Schriften zur Rechtsgeschichte vol 12, 2009. 619 pp. ISBN 9783832940683. €149.
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2010.0309 |
| Published date | 01 September 2010 |
| Date | 01 September 2010 |
| Pages | 518-520 |
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The contributors, writing between them in five languages, seem to have been given considerable freedom in the approach, style and organisation of their respective chapters. Some chapters contain a bibliography, others disperse the literature in the extensive footnotes, and there is commonly but not consistently a summary or abstract in a rather curious mixture of languages. The Scottish chapter (by John Finlay), for instance, has a short summary in Italian while, diplomatically, the summary in the chapter on France is in German and the summary in the German chapter is in French, and perhaps diplomacy rather than consistency directed the editorial hand. What would have been very useful in a work so full of information – and probably more useful than summaries or abstracts, which can scarcely do justice to a detailed account – would have been an index but that, of course, would have involved a great deal of work and a delay in the appearance of the volume. Undoubtedly the
With so many and varied contributions it is impossible to do justice to all and one obvious question for Scottish readers is where Scotland stands in relation to the whole picture. When one asks that question it immediately becomes apparent that the plural of the title “European traditions” is well chosen and that one cannot simply ask where Scotland stands in the European tradition because there are many strands to that tradition.
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