Spatial and Temporal Dimensions for Legal History : Research Experiences and Itineraries / / Massimo Meccarelli, María Julia Solla Sastre (eds.).

• Author: Ambiti geografici e dimensioni temporali nella storia del diritto: esperienze e percorsi di ricerca (Conference) Macerata, Italy)
• TeilnehmendeR: Solla Sastre, María Julia,; Meccarelli, Massimo,
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt am Main : : Max Planck Institute for European Legal History,, 2016.; ©2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English; Italian; Spanish
• Series: Global perspectives on legal history ; v. 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300)
• Notes: Papers from the international seminar Ambiti geografici e dimensioni temporali nella storia del diritto: esperienze e percorsi di ricerca, held at the Scuola Superiore Giacomo Leopardi, Università di Macerata, on 20th and 21st June 2013.

"The spatiotemporal conjunction is a fundamental aspect of the juridical reflection on the historicity of law. Despite the fact that it seems to represent an issue directly connected with the question of where legal history is heading today, it still has not been the object of a focused inquiry. Against this background, the book’s proposal consists in rethinking key confluences related to this problem in order to provide coordinates for a collective understanding and dialogue. The aim of this volume, however, is not to offer abstract methodological considerations, but rather to rely both on concrete studies, out of which a reflection on this conjunction emerges, as well as on the reconstruction of certain research lines featuring a spatiotemporal component. This analytical approach makes a contribution by providing some suggestions for the employment of space and time as coordinates for legal history. Indeed, contrary to those historiographical attitudes reflecting a monistic conception of space and time (as well as a Eurocentric approach), the book emphasises the need for a delocalized global perspective. In general terms, the essays collected in this book intend to take into account the multiplicity of the spatiotemporal confines, the flexibility of those instruments that serve to create chronologies and scenarios, as well as certain processes of adaptation of law to different times and into different spaces. The spatiotemporal dynamism enables historians not only to detect new perspectives and dimensions in foregone themes, but also to achieve new and compelling interpretations of legal history. As far as the relationship between space and law is concerned, the book analyses experiences in which space operates as a determining factor of law, e.g. in terms of a field of action for law. Moreover, it outlines the attempted scales of spatiality in order to develop legal historical research. With reference to the connection between time and law, the volume sketches the possibility of considering the factor of time, not just as a descriptive tool, but as an ascriptive moment (quasi an inner feature) of a legal problem, thus making it possible to appreciate the synchronic aspects of the ‘juridical experience’. As a whole, the volume aims to present spatiotemporality as a challenge for legal history. Indeed, reassessing the value of the spatiotemporal coordinates for legal history implies thinking through both the thematic and methodological boundaries of the discipline."

Table of Contents

Introduction, Spatial and temporal dimensions for legal history : an introduction / Massimo Meccarelli, Maria Julia Solla Sastre -- Spatial turn for legal history? a tentative assessment / Pietro Costa -- Sobre el espacio y el tiempo y el estado de las personas : una mirada desde la historia del derecho / Javier Barrientos Grandon -- Local law and localization of law : Hispanic legal tradition and colonial culture (16th-18th Centuries) / Alejandro Agüero -- Uti possidetis, ita domini eritis. International law and the historiography of the territory / Marta Lorente Sariñena -- Carl Schmitt revisited : ripensare il concetto di Grande Spazio (grossraum) in un contesto globale / Paolo Cappellini -- Diffusion of law books in early modern Europe : a methodologicla approach / Laura Beck Varela -- Per una storia del processo penale all'Italiana : astratte modellistich e abitudini profondamente radicate / Floriana Colao -- Beyond the lighthouse, Sicily and the Sicilies : institutional readings of a borderland / Giacomo Pace Gravina.