ABSTRACT
In Law and Revolution, Professor Harold J. Berman explains how the discovery and deployment of a "new mode of analysis and synthesis" in the eleventh and twelfth centuries contributed to the remarkable organization of society that occurred. The pattern of progressive integration of twelfth century European society that he is describing is replicated in his own work by the progressive integration of various aspects of historical experience. Berman's Integrative Jurisprudence is only partly about the integration of the three basic schools of jurisprudence; it is also, and even more importantly, about the way imaginative application of the method of dialectic can work reconciliations. In a more ambitious light, Berman's history can be seen as replicating in the form of an historical performance the same sort of achievement that he attributes to the jurists and scholars he is describing: the great creative assembly of a fully integrated world out of disparate elements.
