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The article challenges the historiographic cliché, tracing back to F.W. Maitland and handed down to us by the European legal tradition, of the existence of a dichotomy between common law and ius commune. Such an interpretation, taking the “Englishry” of English law for granted, contributed to build its history on its exceptionality with respect to Continental law. The article, focusing on points of connection and overlapping between common law and ius commune, highlights the existence of a common European legal tradition since the middle ages.