[25] Middle Ages. In 1900 Maitland published a translation of part of
Otto Gierke's (O.G.) _Das deutsche Genossenschaftrecht_ under the title
_Political Theories of the Middle Ages_.
[26] The B. G. B. is the _Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch_. Maitland was reading
Mugdan's _Die Gesammten Materialien zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch_. The
Y. B. B. are the Year-books.
[27] _The Cambridge Modern History._
[28] Otto Gierke's monograph on Johannes Althusius, published 1880.
[29] To the _Cambridge Modern History_.
[30] Maitland was invited to succeed Lord Acton in the Chair of Modern
History at Cambridge.
[31] Mire Vᵈ! No verá cada día el condicional de subjunctivo.
[32] The Duke of Devonshire, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge,
had criticised Mr Joseph Chamberlain's fiscal proposals.