UID:
almahu_9949701031302882
Format:
1 online resource (360 pages)
ISBN:
9789004249516
Series Statement:
Rulers & elites ; v. 3
Content:
Law and Empire provides a comparative view of legal practices in Asia and Europe, from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. It relates the main principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. In particular, it shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways. Rulers could use law effectively as an instrument of domination; legal specialists built their identity, livelihood and social status on their knowledge of law; and non-elites exploited the range of legal fora available to them. This volume shows the relevance of legal pluralism and the social relevance of litigation for premodern power structures.
Note:
Preliminary Material --
,
Introduction /
,
Law, Authority and Legitimacy in the Athenian Empire /
,
Roman Law from City State to World Empire /
,
Laws, Bureaucrats, and Imperial Women in China's Early Empires /
,
The Ruler and Law Making in the Ottoman Empire /
,
The Early Modern Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (1495-1806): A Multi-Layered Legal System /
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The Contribution of Early Islamic Rulers to Adjudication and Legislation: The Case of the Mazalim Tribunals /
,
Charlemagne and the Government of the Frankish Countryside /
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The Law Factor in Ottoman-Crimean Tatar Relations in the Early Modern Period /
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Qing Imperial Justice? The Case of Li Shiyao /
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Thinking through Legal Pluralism: 'Forum shopping' in the Later Roman Empire /
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Leges Nationum and Ethnic Personality of Law in Charlemagne's Empire /
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Non-Muslims and Ottoman Justice(s?) /
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Royal Grace, Royal Punishment: Ceremonial Entries and the Pardoning of Criminals in France, c. 1440-1560 /
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Divine Violence to Uphold Moral Values: The Casebook of an Emperor Guan Temple in Hunan Province in 1851-1852 /
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Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Law and empire. Leiden : Brill, 2013 ISBN 9789004245297
Language:
English
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