Law and empire : : ideas, practices, actors / / edited by Jeroen Duindam [and three others].

• Superior document: Rulers & elites : comparative studies in governance, volume 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Duindam, Jeroen Frans Jozef, 1962-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Rulers & elites ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 pages).
• Notes: "This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at a conference held at the History Institute of Utrecht University in November 2008"--Acknowledgements.

Table of Contents

Law, authority and legitimacy in the Athenian empire / Polly Low -- Roman law from city state to world empire / Jill Harries -- Laws, bureaucrats, and imperial women in China's early empires / Karen Gottschang Turner -- The ruler and law making in the Ottoman Empire / Engin Deniz Akarli -- The early modern Holy Roman Empire of the German nation, (1495-1806) : a multi-layered legal system / Karl Harter -- The contribution of early Islamic rulers to adjudication and legislation : the case of the Mazalim tribunals / Nimrod Hurvitz -- Charlemagne and the government of the Frankish countryside / Carine van Rhijn -- The law factor in Ottoman- Crimean Tatar relations in the early modern period / Natalia Krolikowska -- Qing imperial justice? : the case of Li Shiyao / R. Kent Guy -- Thinking through legal pluralism : 'forum shopping' in the later Roman Empire / Caroline Humfress -- Leges nationum and ethnic personality of law in Charlemagne's empire / Peter C.M. Hoppenbrouwers -- Non-Muslims and Ottoman justice(s?) / Antonis Anastasopoulos -- Royal grace, royal punishment : ceremonial entries and the pardoning of criminals in France, c. 1440-1560 -- Neil murphy -- Divine violence to uphold moral values : the casebook of an Emperor Guan temple in Hunan province in 1851-1852 / Barend J. ter Haar.