常为人们忽视的中世纪并非是法治发展史上的空白。法治思想与实践在中世纪的发展历程表明 ,法治首先表现为统治阶级内部各阶层相互妥协的产物 (阶级性 ) ,随后才表现为全社会各阶级的共有价值 (中立性 ) ,既是价值 ,又是工具 ;既有阶级性 ,又有普适性 ,笼统地强调任一方面而不顾其他方面都是不足取的。 The Middle Ages, often neglected by people, are not the blanks in the history of the development of the rule of law. The development of the rule of law in practice and practice in the Middle Ages shows that the rule of law first manifests itself in the product of mutual compromise among all strata of the ruling class (class nature), and then as the common value (neutrality) of all classes in society as a whole, both as a value and a tool ; Both class and universal, with a general emphasis on either side irrespective of the other.