Jhering y su “espíritu del derecho romano”: lectura de un joven estudioso

This article aims to offer scholars and those interested in the History of Roman Law, as well as in the History of Law in general, an interpretation and a renewed reading of one of the most important ‘classic’ works on this subject, that is «The spirit of Roman Law at the various stages of its development» by Rudolf Von Jhering. This work – which is enormous because it consists of four volumes and almost two thousand pages – marks, without any doubt, an unprecedented turning point in the approach to Roman Law and in the elaboration of a new method of studying the history of legal phenomena. Indeed, through an immersion in all areas of the history of the Roman people, from the religious, to the economic, social, cultural, anthropological and philological, Jhering tried to discover the soul and the true essence of the origin of Roman Law and the development of one of the most successful legal systems in history.