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In Western Europe, the autonomy of legal thought was maintained by the universities. As put forth by Berman: “The legal method which was taught in the European universities was one which made possible the construction of legal systems out of preexisting diverse and contradictory customs and laws. The techniques of harmonizing contradictions, coupled with the belief in an ideal body of law -an integrated structure of legal principles- made it possible to being to synthesize canon law and then feudal law, urban law, commercial law, and royal law.