Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors

Jeroen Frans Jozef Duindam (Editor), Jill Harries (Editor), Caroline Humfress (Editor), Nimrod Hurvitz (Editor)

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLeiden
PublisherBrill
Number of pages348
ISBN (Electronic)9789004249516
ISBN (Print)9789004245297
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2013

Publication series

NameRulers & Elites
Volume3
ISSN (Print)2211-4610

Keywords

  • Law, Medieval
  • Law
  • LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
  • Imperialism
  • Law, Ancient
  • Lagar

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