Staatenkunde als Weltbeschreibung

Staatenkunde als Weltbeschreibung
Author: Lukas Reddemann
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 655
Release: 2024-06-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004549811

Diese Studie liefert die erste umfängliche Untersuchung der „Republiken“, den ersten und einflussreichsten frühneuzeitlichen Staatsbeschreibungen, die als Buchreihe publiziert wurden. Die Republiken wurden in den 1620er und 1630er Jahren in Leiden und Amsterdam gedruckt und avancierten zu Grundlagentexten der frühneuzeitlichen Staatenkunde. Zunächst verfolgt die Untersuchung die Verbreitung der Bände in Buchsammlungen und Bibliotheken des 17. Jahrhunderts und liefert so neue Erkenntnisse zu verschiedenen Leser- und Nutzergruppen der Republiken sowie ihrer prominenten Rolle auf dem frühneuzeitlichen Buchmarkt. Weiter verfolgt die Studie anhand dreier Fallstudien – der Republik der Niederlande, des spanischen Weltreichs sowie des safawidischen Persien – die Funktionen der Bände im Wissenschaftsbetrieb sowie die Text-, Ideen- und politischen Traditionen, in denen sie stehen. This book offers the first comprehensive study of the earliest and most notable early modern book series of state descriptions, the ‘Republics’. Printed in Leiden and Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s, the Republics evolved into foundational works of early modern political studies. By first tracing the volumes’ circulation and presence in book collections and libraries in the seventeenth century, this study provides fresh insights into their diverse readerships as well as their prominent role in the early modern book market. It then delves into their various academic purposes and their textual, intellectual, and political traditions through selected case studies on the Dutch Republic, the Spanish Empire, and Safavid Persia.

Mercenaries of Knowledge

Mercenaries of Knowledge
Author: Fabien Montcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2023-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009340492

Explores the strategies that displaced scholars cultivated to navigate the murky waters of Late Renaissance politics.

Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630–1710)

Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630–1710)
Author: Heikki Pihlajamäki
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2017-01-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004331530

In Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710), Heikki Pihlajamäki offers an exciting account of the law in seventeenth-century Livonia, conquered by Sweden. The volume demonstrates how the differences in legal cultures affected the Livonian judiciary and legal procedure in the region.

Quantitative Approaches to Medieval Swedish Law

Quantitative Approaches to Medieval Swedish Law
Author: FREDRIK CHARPENTIER. LJUNGQVIST
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781527580565

This book presents a novel framework for studying historical legalisation using quantitative methods, with 10 fully-preserved laws from medieval Sweden, written between c. 1225 and 1350, serving as a case study. By applying a systematic classification scheme to each legal provision, it is possible to investigate the major differences and similarities in structure and content between the 10 laws. This, in turn, allows for the re-assessment of many long-standing problems in Swedish and European medieval legal history that have been challenging to address with traditional methods based on text analyses. Over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, major changes in the proportion of legal provisions devoted to different fields of law, and to prescribed consequences, are found. The book shows how the proportions of civil law and public law expanded at the expense of criminal law. Furthermore, a clear transition from casuistic to more abstract law provisions can also be witnessed.

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2001-08
Genre:
ISBN:

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.