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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.
Price: $212.00
Pages: 348
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Rulers & Elites
Publication Date:
15 August 2013
ISBN: 9789004245297
Format: Hardcover
Jeroen Duindam is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leiden. His publications include Vienna and Versailles. The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals (Cambridge, 2003); Myths of Power. Norbert Elias and the Early Modern European Court (Amsterdam, 1995).
Jill Harries is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She is the author of books on Law and Empire in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 1999), Cicero and the Jurists (London, 2006), Law and Crime in the Roman World (Cambridge, 2007) and Imperial Rome AD 284-363. The New Empire (Edinburgh, 2012), and articles on late antiquity and Roman legal culture.
Caroline Humfress is Reader in History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2007), as well as various essays and articles on legal history and religion.
Nimrod Hurvitz teaches at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His publications include The Formation of Hanbalism. Piety into Power (London, 2002) and "From Scholarly Circles to Mass Movements: the Formation of Legal Communities in Islamic Societies", The American Historical Review 108/4 (2003).
Jill Harries is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She is the author of books on Law and Empire in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 1999), Cicero and the Jurists (London, 2006), Law and Crime in the Roman World (Cambridge, 2007) and Imperial Rome AD 284-363. The New Empire (Edinburgh, 2012), and articles on late antiquity and Roman legal culture.
Caroline Humfress is Reader in History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2007), as well as various essays and articles on legal history and religion.
Nimrod Hurvitz teaches at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His publications include The Formation of Hanbalism. Piety into Power (London, 2002) and "From Scholarly Circles to Mass Movements: the Formation of Legal Communities in Islamic Societies", The American Historical Review 108/4 (2003).