Law and empire : : ideas, practices, actors / / edited by Jeroen Duindam [and three others].
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 proced...
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| Superior document: | Rulers & elites : comparative studies in governance, volume 3 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rulers & elites ;
v. 3. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
| 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. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004249516 |
| ISSN: | 2211-4610 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Jeroen Duindam [and three others]. |