Histoire des institutions, I: L'Antiquité

The first volume of Ellul's Histoire des institutions, the university textbook on the history of institutions that he wrote for the Presses universitaires de France in the mid-1950s and that remained in print for decades in PUF's student series. This volume covers the institutions of antiquity. The work reflects Ellul's profession: he taught the history of law and institutions at the University of Bordeaux, and the textbook was written for that teaching rather than for a general audience. It is a survey, not an argument, and stands apart from the sociological and theological books for which he is known. It has not been translated into English.