"Maritime Neutrality under Pressure: French Diplomacy in Northern Europe during the Nine Years’ War (1688-1697)" - Seventh ESCLH Biennial Conference, June 21-23, 2023, University of Augsburg (original) (raw)
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In response to the editors' request from the editors of the Warsaw international journal, Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae, for a placement of the history and historiography of medieval Poland in a broader medieval European framework, I use the law as a subject suitable for that analysis. As studied by general medievalists over the past quarter century, the law entails several phenomena which are comparable, that is, not strictly speaking similar, but conceptually consistent across time and space. Such phenomena include: litigation, disputes, and settlements; norms, rules, and normative frameworks; relationship between rule and process; areas of substantive law, such as property, violence and criminality, and status. After a brief survey of the quite disparate historiographies of these subjects produced in Poland and in the English-speaking world, the article, first, identifies the range of comparable phenomena salient for legal history, and, second, moves to a close case study of such phenomena, based on the Henryków Book. In particular, the Book's two authors present a rich array of disputes and settlements. The article uses that material to present a collective study of dispute settlement, and closes with an overview of those patterns in dispute settlement which are directly comparable to their counterparts elsewhere in medieval Europe—thus situating a key part of historical reality in a broader medieval perspective.
Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, [ed.] C. Vano, H. Pihlajamäki, R. Sontag, 2019
The focus of this article is the analysis of the actual shape of implementation of one of the most characteristic solutions of the French legal system in the Polish territories of the 19th century, that is the separate commercial judiciary. Following the 1807 establishment of the French protectorate, Duchy of Warsaw, the new state adopted the French Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure and the Commercial Code. The judiciary was reorganized to imitate the French model, although with some significant divergences from the original. Thus, a number of foreign legal acts were cast ad hoc from post-revolutionary France into the Polish feudal reality. Along with them came not only new institutions, imposed with no time for their gradual development, but also a conceptual apparatus that had never before functioned in the Polish lands. The institution of commercial judiciary, which constitutes an inherent feature of the French system, has grown roots strong enough on the Polish territories to survive by a long time the obligations that resulted from the French protectorate. It is nonetheless important to analyze its evolution on the Polish territories, especially since Polish scholars have been avoiding a complex elaboration of this topic for over 200 years.
Law and Christianity in Poland: The Legacy of the Great Jurists, Publisher: Routledge, 2022
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the Polish history of law and Christianity written in English for a global audience. It examines the lives of twenty-one central figures in Polish law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their country and the region. The individuals selected for study exhibit wide-ranging areas of expertise, from private law and codification, through national public law and constitutional law, to international developments that left their mark on Poland and the world. The chapters discuss the jurists within their historical, intellectual, and political context. The editors selected jurists after extensive consultation with legal historians looking at the jurists' particular merits, contributions to law in general, religious perspective, and period under consideration.
Law and Christianity in Poland: The Legacy of the Great Jurists
Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier and Rafael Domingo (eds.), Routledge, 2022
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the Polish history of law and Christianity written in English for a global audience. It examines the lives of twenty-one central figures in Polish law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their country and the region. The individuals selected for study exhibit wide-ranging areas of expertise, from private law and codification, through national public law and constitutional law, to international developments that left their mark on Poland and the world. The chapters discuss the jurists within their historical, intellectual, and political context. The editors selected jurists after extensive consultation with legal historians looking at the jurists’ particular merits, contributions to law in general, religious perspective, and period under consideration. The collection will appeal to scholars, lawyers, and students interested in the interplay between law and religion. Political, social, legal, and religious historians, among other readers, will find, for the first time in English, authoritative treatments of essential Polish legal thinkers and authors.
2012
In this Department the major research lines focused on the study of interrelations of Roman law with other legal systems of antiquity and the contemporary private law. Professor Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier and Dr Paulina Święcicka were presenting results of their studies in several research centres abroad (Liège, Frankfurt, Pavia, Maastricht). Also the project devoted to the translation of Digesta into Polish was being elaborated, in which Dr Tomasz Palmirski, Dr Paulina Święcicka and Dr Karolina Wyrwińska were engaged.
Slavic Review
A collection of scholarly papers encompassing the entire territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over a period spanning more than four centuries, Religion in the Mirror of Law nevertheless achieves an admirable focus on the "interconnections of religion and law" (ix). Considering the various and changing political, social, and cultural conditions over space and time, this collection of fifteen articles still works as a whole to assess "the legal tools that formed the basis for cooperation, negotiation, mediation, and compromise between different religious communities and between individuals of different confessions" (ix), a welcome shift from the usual approach of assessing interreligious conflict or dissonance. The anthology derives from papers presented at the 2010 international and interdisciplinary conference "Religion in the Mirror of Law: Research on Early Modern Poland-Lithuania and its Successor States in the 19 th and Early 20 th Centuries" held in L΄viv at the Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, spearheaded by the research group on law in ethno-religiously mixed societies of Poland-Lithuania at the Institute for Slavic Studies at Leipzig University (vii). The scholars involved followed the anthropological perspective of Lawrence Rosen that law cannot be separated from culture and that it should be seen as "a framework for ordering relationships," as well as the approach used in Law and Society Studies that stresses "the links between law, institutions, and the public sphere" (xii). That eleven of fifteen articles discuss legal aspects and ramifications of Jewish communities in this geographic region reveals the extent to which their coexistence with the dominant Christian societies comprised perhaps the most intriguing aspect of legal life in the former Commonwealth-and certainly one rich in sources and circumstances ripe for study. Additionally, three articles discuss issues pertaining to Uniates, or Greek Catholics, and one addresses the role of the Polish Institute for Nationality Research in the 1920s and 1930s. Orthodox, Protestant, and Muslim experiences are not represented in this collection. The editors have distributed the articles into four conceptual parts: "Imagining Law-Imagining Society," providing interdisciplinary approaches to a more flexible view of law; "Shifts in Political Rule and the Reorganization of Law," addressing ways religious communities mediated between the state and national groups; "Competing Laws-Competing Loyalties," exploring "legal pluralism" in situations of changed political context; and "Ethno-Religious Coexistence in Legal Norm and Practice," with a focus on Jewish-Christian coexistence. The publisher is to be commended for allowing lengthy and informative footnotes throughout. Dominating the volume, the articles regarding the Jewish experience offer fresh perspectives on their legal place within different Christian societies and political