JOURNAL: Comptabilité(s). Revue d'histoire des comptabilités, XV (2023): Sources, normes et procédures de la fiscalité en Europe méditerranéenne (XIIIe-XVIe s.) [OPEN ACCESS]

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La revue accueille toute recherche portant sur l’histoire et l’archéologie des documents comptables, des institutions qui les commanditent et des personnes qui les réalisent. Elle reçoit dossiers thématiques, articles de fonds et méthodologiques, éditions commentées de documents, comptes-rendus de thèses, de rencontres et d’ouvrages, notes d’actualités. Elle publie des textes dans toutes les langues européennes et les accompagne de résumés en français, anglais, allemand, espagnol.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Béatrice Touchelay – Avant-propos
• Marco Conti et Ézéchiel Jean-Courret – Sources, normes et procédures de la fiscalité directe en Occident méditerranéen (XIIIe-XVe s.)
• Francesco Bettarini – La valutazione del reddito d’impresa nel Catasto del 1427
• Marco Conti – Contribuables, equitas et estimation des richesses du contado bolonais au début du XIVe siècle. Notes en marge de l’édition de l’estimo de 1303
• Florent Garnier – Temporalités documentaires, normatives et fiscales à Millau au milieu du XIVe siècle
• Ézéchiel Jean-Courret – « Aysso qui s’ensec avem baylat per far e per ordenar e per mandar e per levar lo talh ». Discours, procédures et régimes de la fiscalité directe à Périgueux aux XIVe et XVe siècles
• Laura Miquel Milian – El impuesto directo en la Barcelona del siglo XV
• Jordi Morelló Baget et Albert Reixach Sala – “Iuxta facultates bonorum ipsorum singularium”: las fuentes para la fiscalidad directa en las comunidades rurales de la Cataluña bajomedieval y el estudio de la desigualdad
• Davide Morra – Un dialogo delle ragioni. I conti della tassa diretta nel regno di Napoli all’epoca di Ferdinando I d’Aragona (1458-1494)
• Fabrizio Alias – La fiscalità diretta nella terra sarda dei Della Gherardesca: analisi delle pratiche di scrittura e del prelievo signorile attraverso il «Liber introytuum et reddituum» (1323) [Texte intégral]
• Catarina Rosa – Uma aproximação à documentação fiscal em Portugal: fontes para o estudo da fiscalidade municipal direta na Idade Média (sécs. XV-início do XVI)
• Pau Viciano – Matérialité des registres fiscaux et pratiques administratives. Les livres de la levée de l’impôt direct municipal dans le royaume de Valence (Vila-real, 1451)

Hors série

• Philippe Charon Maîtres auditeurs, clercs et notaires des comptes sous la dynastie des Évreux-Navarre (1329–1387)
• Marc Nikitin Le mot comptabilité s’est répandu à la fin du XVIIIe siècle pour désigner une technique de gouvernement

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SCHOLARSHIPS: Visiting Researchers 2025-2026 (Department "Historical Regimes of Normativity", Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) (DEADLINE 30 AUG 2024)

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The Department Historical Regimes of Normativity (Prof. dr. Thomas Duve) will award scholarships for research stays of three or six months, starting on 1 April 2025 / 1 July 2025 / 1 October 2025 / 5 January 2026 for PhD students, post-doctoral and senior researchers. Deadline 30 August 2024.

More information here.

Please ensure that your application reaches us at least four months before your intended research stay. Submit your complete application via our online application system.

BOOK: Michele BACCI, Gohar GRIGORYAN, Manuela STUDER-KARLEN (eds.), Staging the Ruler’s Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023). ISBN: 9781915487087 [OPEN ACCESS]

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ABOUT THE BOOK

This book explores the viewing and sensorial contexts in which the bodies of kings and queens were involved in the premodern societies of Europe, Asia, and Africa, relying on a methodology that aims to overcoming the traditional boundaries between material studies, art history, political theory, and Repräsentationsgeschichte. More specifically, it investigates the multiple ways in which the ruler’s physical appearance was apprehended and invested with visual, metaphorical, and emotional associations, as well as the dynamics whereby such mise-en-scène devices either were inspired by or worked as sources of inspiration for textual and pictorial representations of royalty. The outcome is a multifaced analysis of the multiple, imaginative, and terribly ambiguous ways in which, in past societies, the notion of a God-driven, eternal, and transpersonal royal power came to be associated with the material bodies of kings and queens, and of the impressive efforts made, in different cultures, to elude the conundrum of the latter’s weakness, transitoriness, and individual distinctiveness.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Michele Bacci is Professor of Medieval Art History at Fribourg University, Switzerland, and a member of the Academia Europaea. His research has been focused on artistic interactions in the Medieval Mediterranean and beyond, and the history of cult-objects and holy sites from a phenomenological-comparative viewpoint. He is the author of numerous publications, including Il pennello dell’Evangelista (1998), The Many Faces of Christ (2014), the Mystic Cave (2017), and Veneto-Byzantine Artistic Interactions (2021).

Gohar Grigoryan, Ph.D. (2017), University of Fribourg, is currently senior researcher at the same university within an SNSF-funded project. She is the author of over two dozen peer-reviewed articles on medieval Armenian art and history and of an upcoming monograph on royal imagery in Cilician Armenia.

Manuela Studer-Karlen, Ph.D. (2010), University of Fribourg, is a SNSF Professor for Medieval Art at the University in Bern. She has published a monograph on late antique sarcophagi and recently her habilitation has been published with the title: "Christus Anapeson. Image and Liturgy". Her research centres on the history of visual-cultural processes in late antiquity, the interactions among text, image and space in Byzantine churches, medieval Georgian art, and Gothic ivories.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The Ruler’s Multiple Bodies and Their Mise-en-Scène: Some Introductory Remarks (MICHELE BACCI)

1. Staging the Body of the Lord of the Sevenfold World. Methectic Spaces and Chiasmatic Viewing in Sasanian Iran (MATTHEW P. CANEPA)
2. Queen Consort Mariam Dadiani and Female Architectural Patronage in Late Medieval Georgia (NATIA NATSVLISHVILI)
3. The ‘Just Judgement’ of King Lewon IV. Representational Strategies of Righteous Rulership in Cilician Armenia (GOHAR GRIGORYAN)
4. Royal Imagery and Devotional Spaces in Early Solomonic Ethiopia. The Case of Gännätä Maryam (JACOPO GNISCI)
5. Staging as Metaphor. The King’s Body and the Theatricality of Power (ANTONY EASTMOND)
6. Clothes maketh the emperor? Embodying and Performing Imperial Ideology in Byzantium through Dress (MARIA PARANI)
7. Staging for Commemoration: The Cherubikos Hymnos (MANUELA STUDER-KARLEN)
8. The Khan in the West. The Reception of Mongol Political Power in the Texts and Images of Medieval Latin Europe (ELEONORA TIOLI)
9. Staging the Virgin Mary as the Ruler of the Sienese City-State (KAYOKO ICHIKAWA)
10. Shaping the Face of Power. The Portraits of King Robert of Anjou (1309-1343) (MIRKO VAGNONI)
11. Staging the Royal Corpse. Reburials of Monarchical Bodies at the Basilica of San Isidoro in León (ALEKSANDRA RUTKOWSKA)
12. The Presence and Propaganda of Jaime the Conqueror of Aragon (r. 1213-76) in the Llibre dels Fets. The Image, Action, and Rhetoric of a King (SOFIA FERNANDEZ POZZO)
13. The Royal Presence of Pedro IV (r. 1336-87) in Contemporary Textual and Iconographic Sources (MARTA SERRANO-COLL)
14. Staging the Absent King. Effects of Presence on Medieval Royal Thrones (SABINE SOMMERER)

More information can be found here.

FELLOWSHIPS: IEG-Stipendienprogramm (Mainz: Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, DEADLINE 15 AUG 2024)

 

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Das Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) vergibt Stipendien für Promovierende sowie Postdocs aus dem In- und Ausland. Gefördert werden Forschungsprojekte von der Frühen Neuzeit bis in die Zeitgeschichte, die sich mit der Religions-, Politik-, Gesellschafts- und Kulturgeschichte Europas befassen. Besonders willkommen sind vergleichende, transfergeschichtliche und transnationale Projekte sowie geistes- und religionsgeschichtlichen Fragestellungen. Das Institut ermöglicht seinen Stipendiat:innen, konzentriert ihr eigenes Forschungsvorhaben zu verfolgen. In einer internationalen Gesprächsatmosphäre schärfen sie Methoden und Fragestellungen einer interdisziplinären historischen Europaforschung. Je nach Interesse und fachlicher Ausrichtung können sie an den vielfältigen wissenschaftlichen Aktivitäten des Instituts mitwirken und sich mit seinen internationalen Kooperationspartnern austauschen. Die zu fördernden Forschungsprojekte sollten auf 6 bis 12 Monate angelegt sein. Die Stipendien sind mit einer Residenzpflicht in Mainz verbunden. Kürzere Reisen zu Archiven, Bibliotheken, auswärtigen Fachleuten und Fachtagungen sind im Rahmen dieser Residenzpflicht möglich. Die Stipendiat:innen wohnen und arbeiten im Institutsgebäude in Mainz. Für ihre Forschungen steht ihnen die Spezialbibliothek des Instituts und die Infrastruktur am Wissenschaftsstandort Mainz zur Verfügung. Forschungsliteratur, die nicht im Bestand vorhanden ist, kann über einen Ausleihservice aus der Universitätsbibliothek Mainz oder per Fernleihe bestellt werden. Die wissenschaftlichen Arbeitssprachen des IEG sind deutsch und englisch. Gute Kenntnisse der englischen Sprache sind Voraussetzung. Haftungshinweis: Wir übernehmen keine Haftung für die Inhalte externer Links.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Gender, Identity, and Authority in Late Antiquity (Tulsa, 20-23 MAR 2025; DEADLINE 1 OCT 2024)

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The Society for Late Antiquity is pleased to announce the sixteenth biennial meeting of Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, which will be held at The University of Tulsa, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We encourage papers that investigate issues and aspects of gender, identity, and/or authority within the broader late antique world, either in relation to one another or on their own. This thematic scope is intentionally broad, allowing for many different approaches and from a host of disciplines and methodologies. Gender, for example, might include the impact of religion or other factors on ideas of the family, sex, and sexuality, understandings of the nature of gender differences, or conceptions of identity and authority in relationship to the gendered or genderless self or other. Likewise, identity might focus on its self-perception or ascription by others, its potential to be malleable, situational, or contested, or its various components, like ethnicity, political allegiance, religious affiliation, or class. Finally, authority might interrogate its attribution to or expectation for a particular person (e.g., an empress or saint), place (e.g., Rome), or thing (e.g., a text or creed), the mechanisms for its attainment or rejection, such as tradition, merit, or force, or its realization of lack thereof, either as an actual fact or ideal.

Abstracts (no more than 500 words) for papers presenting original scholarship should be submitted for consideration no later than October 1, 2024.

More information can be found here.

HONORARY DOCTORATE: Prof. John Cairns (Edinburgh) receives honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow

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First paragraph:

On Wednesday, 19 June 2024 the University of Glasgow awarded Professor John Cairns, Professor of Civil Law at Edinburgh Law School, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The degree was awarded by the University of Glasgow’s Chancellor and Olympian Gold Medallist Dame Katherine Grainger. Dame Grainger Is also a former student of Professor Cairns from her time as an undergraduate law student at Edinburgh Law School.

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BOOK: Martine CHARAGEAT, Mathieu SOULA, Mathieu VIVAS (eds.), Faire justice. Petit répertoire de sources commentées (Moyen Âge-XXe siècle) (Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2024). ISBN: 9782757441343

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Conçu pour des étudiants et des enseignants, cet ouvrage favorise l'approche de l’histoire de la justice à n’importe quel niveau d’apprentissage, que ce soit celui d’une initiation ou bien d’une spécialisation. L’historiographie qui bénéficie à ce jour d’une longue tradition, pour les périodes allant du Moyen Âge au XXe siècle, n’est pas celle qui a le plus édité de sources de manière accessible et pédagogique (transcription, traduction, etc.). Partager ses sources et expliquer comment les manipuler est un pan de l’histoire judiciaire que les chercheurs n’ont pas encore pleinement investi. Il n’est sans doute pas simple d’éditer des lettres de rémission ou des procès, par exemple, et la raison en est facile à comprendre : ils sont trop longs à publier en termes de volume. La mise en ligne de certains dossiers, comme sur le site de Criminocorpus, atténue en partie ce manque, que le présent ouvrage aimerait également venir modestement pallier.

More information can be found here.

BOOK: Chanelle DELAMEILLIEURE, Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024). ISBN: 9789463724074

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The Middle Dutch term schaec referred to abduction with marital intent. This book explores this phenomenon to understand wider attitudes towards marriage-making in the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Whilst exchanging words of consent was all that was required legally, making marriage was a social process that evoked public concern and familial scrutiny. Abductions embodied contrasting evaluations of what mattered when selecting a spouse and resulted in polarized trials in which narratives on consent, coercion, and family strategy coincided and competed. Abduction, Marriage, and Consent draws from a wide range of legal records to assess how men, women, families, and authorities used, navigated, and dealt with abductions during this period. It contributes to debates on consent, family involvement, and women’s access to justice and demonstrates that abduction should be approached as a comprehensive social phenomenon, one that is crucial in the history of marriage and women’s social and legal status.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chanelle Delameillieure researches late medieval gender and family history with a focus on marriage, sexuality and the social history of the law. She is a tenure track professor of medieval history at KU Leuven.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

I. Perks and Perils of Being an Heiress

II. Abduction’s Who, How, and Why?

III. Consent in and out of the Courtroom

IV. What Authorities Did to Help

Conclusion

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BOOK: Christof ROLKER, Canon Law in the Age of Reforms (c. 1000 to c. 1150), (Washington: The Catholic University of America, 2023). ISBN: 9780813237572

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ABOUT THE BOOK

This monograph addresses the history of canon law in Western Europe between ca. 1000 and ca. 1150, specifically the collections compiled and the councils held in that time. The main part consists of an analysis of all major collections, taking into account their formal and material sources, the social and political context of their origin, the manuscript transmission, and their reception more generally. As most collections are not available in reliable editions, a considerable part of the discussion involves the analysis of medieval manuscripts. Specialized research is available for many but not all these works, but tends to be scattered across miscellaneous publications in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish; one purpose of the book is thus to provide relatively uniform, up-to-date accounts of all major collections of the period. At the same time, the book argues that the collections are much more directly influenced by the social milieux from which they emerged, and that more groups were involved in the development of high medieval canon law than it has previously been thought. In particular, the book seeks to replace the still widely held belief that the development of canon law in the century before Gratian’s Decretum (ca. 1140) was largely driven by the Reform papacy. Instead, it is crucial to take into account the contribution of bishops, monks, and other groups with often conflicting interests. Put briefly, local needs and conflicts played a considerably more important role than central (papal) ‘reform’, on which older scholarship has largely focused.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christof Rolker is a professor of medieval history at the University of Bamberg.

More information can be found here.

EXHIBITION: Connaissez-vous Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès ? (Paris: place Vendôme, 3 JUN - 12 JUL 2024)

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Du 3 juin au 12 juillet 2024, la place Vendôme, à Paris, accueille une exposition avec accès gratuit dédiée à Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès (1753-1824) à l’occasion du bicentenaire de sa mort. 

Proposée dans le cadre de la programmation culturelle du ministère de la Justice, cette exposition gratuite est une invitation à découvrir le parcours de ce personnage oublié qui a pourtant marqué l’histoire de la justice.

Les dix panneaux de l’exposition retracent la vie de Cambacérès, de ses origines montpellieraines à son ascension politique sous l’ère napoléonienne. Vous pourrez saisir combien son action et ses qualités de juriste ont contribué à l’affirmation de l’État de droit au sortir de la tourmente révolutionnaire. Avocat, puis conseiller de cour souveraine, député, ministre de la Justice, deuxième consul, archichancelier… Habile sur le plan politique, Cambacérès aura réussi à se maintenir sous tous les régimes de 1792 jusqu’en 1815, date de la chute de Napoléon. 

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ARTICLE: Jo GULDI, "The Revolution in Text Mining for Historical Analysis is Here" (The American Historical Review CXXIX (2024), No. 2 (June), 519-543

 

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Abstract:

We have known since Vico to think of written text and oral traditions as two systems of culture. Social historians have long treated the rise of literacy itself as an important index of modernity, although collectors of oral traditions have typically transcribed folk songs and oral stories into text. Modern historians track the appearance of different genres of writing, from parliamentary blue books to the newspaper to the novel to published transcripts of court cases, as an index of evolving institutions and markets. And knowledge of the way that these texts circulated—whether read aloud in the post office or debated on bulletin board systems on the early internet—is often a clue to important social structures. The knowledge accessible through text does not exhaust in any way the full repository of artifacts that historians use—which of course extends to the formats of texts; to visual and audio media, which may or may not combine graphics, video, or sound with text; to the record of the built and natural environment itself; and to demographic, price, and climate data sometimes measured in nontextual ways and stored in separate repositories. Despite innovation and a plurality of possible concerns, many of our points of entry into the past remain through text.

Read more here: DOI 10.1093/ahr/rhae163.

 

PROGRAM: PHEDRA’s Summer School (Palos de la Frontera: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, 25-28 JUN 2024)

 

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Summer school of the international research network PHEDRA: Pour une Histoire Européenne du DRoit des Affaires

 Program

25th June 2024

18.00-20.00 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 1. Roman Law in the Sources of Commercial Law – Prof. Dario Mantovani and prof. Guido Rossi

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26th June 2024

9.00-11.30 Parallel sessions

AULA 2 Antiquity – Discussants: prof. Luisa Brunori, prof. Olivier Descamps, prof. Carlos Petit                                      

Albert Gómez Jordán – Las cripto monedas como precio del contrato de compraventa/Los bienes con elemento digitales como objeto del contrato de compraventa/ La negotiorum gestio: casos dudosos.

Carlota Hernández García – El estudio de la multa en el derecho romano y el análisis del comercio marítimo en la Antigüedad.

Julio Romano Cabello – Reconstrucción del derecho privado constantiniano a partir de los rescriptos de la época.

Vid Žepič – Favor debitoris and Factors of Its Evolution in the Imperial Legislation between the 4th and 6th Centuries.

AULA 6 Early Modern Period – Discussants: prof. Giovanni Chiodi, prof. Florent Garnier

Femke Gordijn – Law and Trade in Late Medieval Bruges and Southhampton (c. 1400-1520).

Alexis Audemar – The legal treatment of labour by the early modern scolastics.

Paola Iezzone – The saffron trade in Rome during the Renaissance: archive sources and trade routes from Abruzzo.

AULA MAGNA Contemporary Period  – Discussants: prof. Albercht Cordes, prof. Dave De ruysscher

Damian Baçzkiewicz – A Tsunami or a Gentle Tide? The Influence of the French Commercial Code of 1807 on the Formation of Belgian Legal Discourse.

Aurelia Ghetivu – Le rôle de la coutume jurisprudentielle devant le Tribunal de commerce de la Seine sous la Second Empire (1852-1870).

Jérôme Hecker – L’importance du cadre juridique dans le développement économique au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Une perspective historique (1929-1990).

Break

12.00-13.30 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 2. Long Distance Trade – Prof. Ron Harris

Lunch

15.30-18.00 – Parallel sessions

AULA 2 – Middle Ages – Discussants: prof. Luisa Brunori, prof. Olivier Descamps, Prof. Ana Belem Fernández Castro

David De Concilio – The Ecclesiastical Stance on Just Price in the Thirteenth Century

Niels Fieremans – Law, Leverage and Litigation. Legal strategies of foreign merchants in late medieval Bruges.

Daniele Tinterri – The Liber Gazarie

Ana Cláudia Silveira – Setúbal, a rising Portuguese sea port in the international trade of the Late Middle Ages.

AULA 6 – Early Modern – Discussants: prof. Giovanni Chiodi, prof. Albercht Cordes; Prof. Florent Garnier

Andriws González Barrera – Florence and Toulouse (1450-1550): Early Modern Examples of Economic Sovereignty and Legal Drafting in Commercial Policies.

Daniel Bökenkamp – A Tale of Two Cities: sovereignity, diplomacy and commerce in early modern Lübeck and Rouen.

Stefano Cattelan – In the Shadow of the Great Powers: Freedom of the Sea and Neutrality in the Long Eighteenth-Century.

Francesca Fusco Italian terms of commerce in German: the entries of the MICOLL glossary

AULA MAGNA – Contemporary Period Discussants: Prof. Anja Amend-Traut, Prof. Dave De ruysscher, prof. Carlos Petit

Greta Spineti – New Forms of Cultural Tourism in Adriatic: The Potential Role of Ancient Maritime Wine Routes.

Christian Magaling – Private Colonialism and Island Diplomacy: Germany’s Company Rule in Pacific Politics.

Hélène Hu – La concession française de Shanghai : aspects juridiques et juridictionnels.

Carolina Argiroffi – Commercial law goes to the countryside: Association and labour subordination in the 19th-20th century Italian legal discourse.

Break

18.30-20.00 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 3. – Early-modern archival sources on foreign commercial nations’ judicial competences, and their relations to the local, regional and central jurisdictions (illustrated by Antwerp cases) – Prof. Georges Martyn

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27th June 2024

9.00-10.30 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 4. The Sources of Northern European Commercial Law – Prof. Heikki Pihlajamäki

Break

11.00-13.30 – Parallel sessions

AULA 2 – Early Modern Discussants: prof. Anja Amend-Traut, prof. Dave De ruysscher, prof. Olivier Descamps

Roberto Ganau – Sovranità e commercio nella Francia del XVI secolo. Verso una storia intellettuale della bancarotta

Gilles Hebben – The Levant Company (1592-1825).

Victor Le Breton-Blon – A transnational history of commercial paper in Europe (16th-18th century)

Laurine Manac’h – Incorporating business: merchants, law and the regulation of business organizations in the age of liberalism. Barcelona and Buenos Aires, 1778-1840.

AULA 6 – 18th-19th c. – Discussants: prof. Albrecht Cordes, prof. Florent Garnier, prof. Ana Belem Fernández Castro

Matthieu Mraizika – Modélisation mathématique et impôt dans la France du XVIIIe siècle.

Luca Jacopo Salvadori – Mutual Aid in Eighteenth Century.

Manon Séréni – Le crédit dans les répertoires de droit, d’une crise à l’autre (1715-1789).

Alexandre Valverde – L’idée de codification du droit privé à l’échelle européenne et internationale (fin XVIIIe s-début XXe).

AULA MAGNA – Contemporary Period – Discussants: prof. Luisa Brunori, Prof. Giovanni Chiodi, Prof. Carlos Petit

Andrea Raffaele Amato – Tra Progresso e Innovazione: Il lungo itinerario della scienza giuridica italiana verso la socializzazione dell’ordine familiare.

Marjorie Carvalho de Sousa – A General Law out of a Special Jurisdiction: Commercial Law of Labor in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.

Justine Chauvel – Le bail immobilier du local commercial-Histoire comparée des droits européens (XVIIIe-XXe siècle).

Rodrick Van Der Smissen – Roman law and the formative interpretation of history in nineteenth-century insolvency law (c. 1850-c. 1900)”. 

Lunch

15.30-17.30 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 5. Reading the Sources of Commercial Law Doctrine – Prof. Annamaria Monti and prof. Xavier Prévost

Break

18.00-20.00 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA  

Lecture 6. Lexicon and Translation of Commercial Law Sources – Prof. Jake Dyble and Prof. Stefania Gialdroni

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Practical information

Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA)

Paraje de La Rábida s/n, 21819 Palos de la Frontera – Huelva – Spain

Phone +34 959350452

Breakfast 8.00h – 9.00h
Lunch 14h-15h
Dinner 20.30h-21.30h

Luisa Brunori +33 6 37 79 23 70 / +39 331 77 33 230
Ana Belem Fernández Castro +33 7 77 33 66 71
Carlos Petit +34 666 41 86 3

CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th ESCLH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE (Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025; DEADLINE 31 OCT 2024)

 

The Organising Committee and the Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History are pleased to call for papers for the upcoming Society’s 8^th Biennial Conference to be held from 2 to 4 July 2025 at the University of Szeged, Hungary.

The conference series started in Valencia (2010), followed by Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdansk (2016), Paris (2018), and Lisbon (2022). In 2023, we had a successful conference in Augsburg.

The theme of the conference is to call attention to the development of legal institutions that are related to and serve as the foundation of modern/contemporary state and law. We mainly expect papers based on the examination of primary sources, since the main aim of the conference is to draw attention to the importance and analysis of primary sources (e.g. archival sources, judgements, parliamentary materials) in legal historical research, across legal systems.

The organizers wish to offer the opportunity to all participants who intend to present their legal historical and comparative research based mainly on primary sources, regardless of the historical era and geographical areas.

Back to the past and analysis of primary sources, new findings can be presented which can be used for the development of law in the contemporary period. Building the future can only be based on thorough historical and legal research, which can be achieved by connecting the past to the present. Through the complex and comparative assessment of the different branches of law, we can work towards a more general picture of legal development.

To offer a paper, please submit an abstract of up to 400 words, in English, by 31 October 2024. The abstract should include the title of your proposed paper and your personal data (full name, email address, work affiliation). Please also send a short CV (no more than 4 pages). Anyone at any stage in their research career can offer a paper. The submissions should be sent to [email protected]. Abstracts will be assessed against: (1) the aim to have a diverse conference; (2) the novelty of the work; (3) a professionally grounded presentation proposal including a description of the sources and methodology involved and a concise description of the research results. One author may only give one paper at the conference in order to allow as many people as possible to deliver papers.

It is also possible to submit a proposal for a complete panel. Panels normally consist of three papers. A panel proposal should – in addition to the abstracts and CVs of those who wish to present a paper in that panel – include an abstract for the entire panel, as well as a CV of the panel organizer. The list of accepted papers will be announced by December 2024.

A conference website will be launched with further details of the conference in December 2024.

The conference website will also contain information on the attendance fee for those not members of the ESCLH, transport to and from Szeged, and accommodation in Szeged. The conference website will allow registration for the conference, starting in February 2025. Finally, the conference will be preceded by an additional PhD-workshop on 2 July 2025. Further information about the workshop will also be published in December 2024.

Norbert Varga
organizer

University of Szeged

Faculty of Law and Political Sciences

Department of Hungarian Legal History

ADVANCE ARTICLES: American Journal of Legal History

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Letter Writing and Legal Consciousness during World War I (Elisabeth A. Hoffmann)

DOI 10.1093/ajlh/njae003
Abstract:

This article explores how ordinary Americans thought about law during World War I by examining 119 letters to Congress regarding charges under the Espionage Act. These letters are a product of their time and shed new light on our understanding of the first Red Scare. This lens of legal consciousness explains how people remain within established modes of engagement, rather than either withdrawing or becoming violent, as is found in the extant literature. Despite opposing goals, the letter writers’ shared master frame enabled them to ‘speak to’ the other side, rather than ‘past’ those with opposing views. This article explains how individuals who opposed and supported seating Berger rallied under the same master frame of Americanism. Yet, the two groups displayed strikingly different legal consciousness. These disparate groups not only conceptualized the law itself differently, but engaged the law as a tool for different agendas. At a time when violence was on the rise, these people eschewed violent means and maintained the most conventional, peaceful means of protest: letter writing. How they managed this was by embracing the law as their key, nonviolent tool.

A Turbid River of History and Law: The Procurement of Women in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea (Marie Seong-Hak Kim)
DOI 10.1093/ajlh/njae006
Abstract:

Japanese military brothels during the Pacific War, known as comfort stations, and the predicaments of women confined there still reverberate in public memory. Of late a growing number of scholars have called for approaching the comfort women issue from a broader historical context, linking it to Japan’s prewar state-regulated prostitution, later transplanted into its colonies, and human trafficking. This article discusses the legal frameworks of indentured contracts and criminal prosecution surrounding the procurement of women in imperial Japan and colonial Korea. Most women entered prostitution impressed by poverty when the law fully recognized their agency as independent contractors. The age-old machinery of advanced loan agreements, signed or guaranteed in many cases by destitute parents, revealed how the ill-guided idea of filial piety muddled the boundaries between the exercise of legal rights and their abuses. The judicial process dealing with prostitution contracts and also the crimes of abduction and kidnapping helps understand how law and state institutions operated in the Japanese colonial empire. The recent historiographical debate on the comfort women raises critical questions about the conditions under which the past is assessed.

The Pennsylvania Council of Censors and the Debate on the Guardian of the Constitution in the Early United States (Angus Harwood Brown) [OPEN ACCESS]
DOI 10.1093/ajlh/njae004
Abstract:

In 1776, Pennsylvania established an institution called the Council of Censors, which would be elected every seven years and was tasked with ensuring that the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government had remained faithful to the constitution. None of the other thirteen colonies would create a similar institution, although Vermont would in 1777. Nor has the Council of Censors enjoyed a positive reputation among historians or constitutional scholars: Gordon Wood, for example, has attacked the institution as ‘a monster [pulled] out of Roman history’. Contemporaries agreed, and the body was abolished in Pennsylvania in 1790 after years of vociferous opposition and was criticized extensively at the Federal Convention in 1787. But the Council of Censors was a remarkably innovative institution, the first designed to enforce a written constitution, created decades before the Supreme Court’s assumption of the power of constitutional judicial review in 1803. This article presents a new history of the origins of the Council of Censors and its reception both in Pennsylvania and across the United States. It challenges prevailing accounts of the origins and purpose of the Council of Censors and argues that it was a product of a new theory of constitutionalism as the codification of popular sovereignty which emerged in the United States in the 1770s in response to the colonists’ fears about legislative overreach. Prior to the nineteenth century, it was only in Pennsylvania that this resulted in the creation of institutions to secure the supremacy of constitutional law over ordinary legislative power. As the final section of this article demonstrates, the idea that the constitution could be enforced against the legislative branch by an independent constitutional guardian—including the Supreme Court—was rejected at the Federal Convention precisely because of its framers’ antipathy to Pennsylvania’s radically democratic constitution.

Alexander Hamilton's Constitutional Jurisprudence and the Bank Bill (Peter Charles Hoffer)
DOI 10.1093/ajlh/njae002
Abstract:

Alexander Hamilton's view of law was more than pragmatic. Forward looking, and innovative, it saw law as a creative tool. Often misread, and dismissed, as mere policy preference, it was in fact sophisticated and superbly articulated jurisprudence. In the years between the ratification debate and the proposal for the First Bank of the United States, Hamilton displayed this jurisprudence to great effect.

Book reviews

•  Christian G Fritz, Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance (DOI 10.1093/ajlh/njae007)

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BOOK: Valentin JEUTNER, The Reasonable Person. A Legal Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), ISBN 9781009445627

 

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Abstract:

Jeutner argues that the reasonable person is, at heart, an empathetic perspective-taking device, by tracing the standard of the reasonable person across time, legal fields and countries. Beginning with a review of imaginary legal figures in the legal systems of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the book explains why the common law's reasonable person emerged amidst the British industrialisation under the influence of Scottish Enlightenment thinking. Following the figure into colonial courts, onto battlefields and into self-driving cars, the book contends that the reasonable person invites judges, jury-members, and lawyers to take another person's perspective when assessing their own or another person's conduct. The perspective of another is taken by means of empathy, by feeling what others might feel in a particular situation. Thus construed, the figure of the reasonable person can help us make more accurate judgments in a diverse world.

Table of contents:

Table of Contents - Introduction - The Reasonable Person in the Past - The Reasonable Person in Birmingham - The Reasonable Person in Clapham - The Reasonable Person in the Colonies - The Reasonable Person in the Battlefield - The Reasonable Person in the Future-  Conclusion Bibliography Index. 

On the author:

Valentin Jeutner is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Lund University and Senior Retained Lecturer, Pembroke College, Oxford. Jeutner encountered the reasonable person when studying law in England (Oxford/Cambridge) and the US (Georgetown). He is also admitted to the bar of New York State. Previous publications include Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law (2017) and [l]ex machina (2020). 

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BOOK SERIES: Legal History of Asia (eds. Kentaro MATSUBARA & Fernanda PIRIE) (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill)

 

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As Asian societies play increasingly significant roles in the political economy of the world, it becomes crucially important to understand their laws and values in historical context. In fact, many of the longest-lived and most intricate legal traditions come from Asia. This series offers studies of historic legal systems, texts, jurisprudence, legal practices and everyday experiences of law from this complex and diverse region. Volumes encompass both formal laws and broader legal practices. The editors particularly encourage work that analyses laws in their social and political contexts, as well as scholarship that assesses Asian laws comparatively. The authors bring multiple perspectives to these subjects, and the series offers resources for regional specialists, legal and other historians, and comparative lawyers, whose fields of scholarship are being enriched by the broadening interest in historic Asia. The series welcomes the submission of standard monographs and edited volumes (80.000 - 120.000 words). Exceptions to this wordcount can be discussed with the Publisher. Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit enquiries and proposals to the series editors, Kentaro Matsubara and Fernanda Pirie, or the Publisher at Brill, Alessandra Giliberto. Brill is in full support of Open Access publishing and offers the option to publish your monograph, edited volume, or chapter in Open Access. Our Open Access services are fully compliant with funder requirements. We support Creative Commons licenses. For more information, please visit Brill Open or contact us at [email protected].

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BOOK: Burt KASPARIAN (ed.), La concorde entre les hommes de l'Antiquité à nos jours: aspects culturels et juridiques. Mélanges en l'honneur de Jacques Bouineau (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024). ISBN: ‎ 2753597308, pp. 432, €30,00

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Qu’est-ce que la concorde entre les hommes? Quelles sont les conditions d’une société harmonieuse? Pourquoi la concorde passe-t-elle par l’intelligence, la connaissance de soi et celle de l’autre, ainsi que par la compréhension des différences mutuelles? Historiens du droit et des idées, antiquisants, médiévistes, spécialistes des lettres et des arts associent leurs recherches pour envisager les facteurs d’unité et de désunion entre les hommes, ainsi que les moyens d’assurer leur plein épanouissement dans le cadre des relations personnelles, sociales, institutionnelles et internationales qu’ils nouent entre eux. Tous scrutent la dimension culturelle de la concorde qui participe à l’affirmation de l’identité dans des espaces et des périodes variés. Tous soulignent les points de tension à dépasser pour assurer la cohésion du groupe et sa persistance. L’Antiquité est ici la période privilégiée. C’est en effet à cette période que se fonde la façon dont nous concevons encore la concorde et l’éducation de l’homme, de l’enfant et du citoyen qui y mène.

Les études rassemblées dans cet ouvrage sont dédiées au professeur d’histoire du droit Jacques Bouineau qui a œuvré et milité tout au long de sa carrière, non seulement au nom de l’« intelligence cordiale », mais pour sa réalisation ou son progrès.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Burt Kasparian est maître de conférences en histoire du droit à La Rochelle Université. Il dirige le pôle éditorial de l’Ifao depuis 2023.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Tabula Gratulatoria
• Bibliographie de Jacques Bouineau
• L’intelligence cordiale : réflexions sur l’expérience libanaise
• Citadin et bédouin dans la pensée d’Ibn Ḫaldūn: essai d’une conception de la Cité
• Une concorde conflictuelle : autour de l’individualisme juridique
• Le baptistère épiscopal à l’épreuve des siècles : une heureuse falsification de la mémoire de la cité antique au profit de la communauté
• Concordia et consanguinitas : la parenté biologique et la parenté spirituelle dans les plus anciens textes juridiques slaves
• Justice, Sexualité dans La Cité du Soleil de Campanella
• Le vie della pace nel Mediterraneo: communita’ locali, plutocrazie e sviluppo
• L’intelligence cordiale dans la perspective linéaire du Quattrocento florentin
• Les lettres de Pline à Tacite : éthique et esthétique de la concordia
• Régulation de l’audiovisuel et économie digitale
• L’entente cordiale au Proche-Orient ancien : la diplomatie au secours de l’État
• Vivre en terre chrétienne : les musulmans du royaume de Sicile – approche comparative
• L’étude de la Saintonge antique au XVIIIe siècle : les Recherches topographiques de François-Marie Bourignon
• De la persona à l’egomet dans la tradition littéraire des miroirs aux princes : l’exemple du De regimine principum de Gilles de Rome
• L’éducation du citoyen républicain idéal (1792-1794) : le héros
• Riverains et Rivaux : droits d’eau et conflits le long de la rivière au lendemain du Code civil
• La prise de Constantinople par les Russes : la position de Chateaubriand
• Le fondement du pouvoir impérial à l’époque de Justinien : cadre historiographique d’analyse politique et religieuse
• Burke, les Révolutionnaires et l’Antiquité : étude comparative de l’utilisation de l’Antiquité par les Révolutionnaires et dans les Réflexions sur la Révolution en France
• Un homme « éclaté » ? Regard contemporain sur un être juridiquement stable, socialement tiraillé 
• La commémoration des amis sur les monuments funéraires du Moyen Empire égyptien
• De quelques représentations et/ou manifestations de la concorde entre les hommes à travers un film, un texte, un lieu
• Concorde ou discorde sur la régulation du fait religieux en Francedans les relations interpersonnelles au début du XXIe siècle ?
• L’idée de la tolérance religieuse selon Spinoza
• Une expérience de codification commentée par son auteur : témoignage d’une correspondance inédite entre Victor Collin de Plancy et Gustave Boissonade (1892-1905)
• Prolégomènes à une recherche sur l’institution indo-européenne de l’éducation pour autrui : à propos de Jacques Bouineau, Traité d’histoire européenne des institutions (Ier-XVe siècle), t. I, Paris, Litec, 2004, p. 333)
• Boire ou manger ? Remarques d’anthropologie historique du droit sur l’art d’accommoder la paix

WEBINAR: Dialogues of art, history and law - Friday 21 JUN 2024 (on ZOOM)

 

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BOOK: William E. BUTLER & Oleksiy KRESIN (eds.), The World Picture of Comparative Law (Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing, 2024). ISBN: 9781616196905, pp. 694, $185.

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

A title in the JCL Studies in Comparative Law, Second Series. 

Every discipline perceives and constructs the world in its own way, structuring an aspect of reality and developing a research program and methodology with a specific vision that forms a special world picture of the discipline. The essays in this volume address the dialectics of the individual, national or other legal systems, the particular/common, and the (non)existence of the general/global, as the basis of a comparative law world picture, presenting for the first time its complex philosophical and historical vision. The view of law as a "national" discipline disregarded the law of nations and non-Western realities and the interaction of state legal orders with other normative orders. As shown here, a paradigmatic change is underway as awareness of this larger picture takes root. 

ABOUT THE EDITORS

William E. Butler is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University; Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University of London (University College London); Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. 

Oleksiy Kresin is a leading Ukrainian comparative lawyer; Head, Center of Comparative Jurisprudence, Koretsky Institute of State and Law, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Secretary-General, Ukrainian Association of Comparative Jurisprudence; President, Ukrainian National Committee, International Association of Legal Sciences; Associate, International Academy of Comparative Law.

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