Part One : Law and the capitalist rise to power: an overview
1. The merchant as rebel
2. The backdrop of the new legal institutions
Part Two : The merchants seek a place in the feudal order (1000-1200)
3. Introduction
4. The Crusades: seizure of trade routes and spread of bourgeois ideology
5. Venice and Amalfi: between East and West
6. Some origins of urban culture
7. Transport by land and sea
8. Popes and merchants
9. The Bourgeoisie in 1200
Part Three : Bourgeois lawyers, royal power, and urban development (1200-1400)
10. Introduction
11. Beaumanoir and others: the theoreticians of a new order
12. The merchant capital of Grasse
13. Peasant rebellion and land law
Part Four : The bourgeois ascendancy (1400-1600)
14. Introduction
15. Thomas More and the destruction of the medieval vision
16. Recasting the law of real property
17. Contract
a study of law and social reality
Part Five : Bourgeois victory (1600-1804)
18. France: The triumph of the third estate
19. England: the techniques of the common law
Part Six : Insurgency and jurisprudence
20. The development of legal ideology
21. Leading schools of legal thought
22. The jurisprudence of insurgency