Law and empire ideas, practices, actors / edited by Jeroen Duindam, Jill Harries, Caroline Humfress, and Nimrod Hurvitz.

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Publication InfoLeiden : Brill, 2013.
Descriptionx, 348 pages ; 25 cm.
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Other author/creatorDuindam, Jeroen Frans Jozef, 1962-
Other author/creatorHarries, Jill.
Other author/creatorHumfress, Caroline.
Other author/creatorHurvitz, Nimrod, 1958-
SeriesRulers & elites, 2211-4610 ; volume 3
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 Härter -- 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 Królikowska -- 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 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.
General note"This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at a conference held at the History Institute of Utrecht University in November 2008"-- Acknowledgements.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2013021985
ISBN9789004245297 (hardback : alk. paper)

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