Never before had analyzed in Spanish language as extensive as in this book so formally also original, the object, method and sources of Constitutional History, its relationship with other related knowledge, their situation with regard to their research and teaching, and the possibilities of writing a necessary European Constitutional History.
After a previous, by Joaquin Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, the heart of the work comprise four long interviews that this historian has made constitutionalism Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Michel Troper, Maurice Vile and Maurizio Fioravanti methodological reflections. They highlights the plurality of knowledge (legal, historical, philosophical, sociological and political science) concurring in the Constitutional History, at the same time provide insight into the hand of these great masters four very important areas of the world constitutional historiography : German, French, Anglo-Saxon and Italian. The book concludes with a study of Ignacio Fernandez Sarasola on the origins, development and current situation of the Spanish constitutional historiography.