1. Definition
Legisprudence, corresponding to the German field of Legistik (the study of law, particularly Roman law) exists as a subdiscipline of legal history only in Germany and was coined in the 1970s to complement Kanonistik, the study of canon law (Ecclesiastical law). Legisprudence focuses on the study of texts influenced by Roman law from the age of ius commune, which is called the era of Gemeines Recht in German terminology (13th–17th cen…