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INHERITANCE AND INCEST: TOWARD A LÉVI‐STRAUSSIAN READING OF MONTESQUIEU'S DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS1
ABSTRACT The premise of this article is that Montesquieu, while seen as an Enlightenment thinker who contributed centrally to the development of the social sciences before the period of discipline formation in the nineteenth century, is generally appreciated in only the vaguest of terms.
Paul Cheney
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The early medieval coin‐using economy is traditionally conceptualized as a masculine sphere with minimal female involvement. This article examines a corpus of 135 gold and pale gold coins of the later sixth and seventh centuries that underwent modification as coin‐pendants, a form of jewellery that belongs almost exclusively to feminine contexts ...
Katie D. Haworth +1 more
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Social organizations and political institutions: why China and Europe diverged
Abstract This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on, while Europe remained politically fragmented for much longer.
Joel Mokyr, Guido Tabellini
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Typologies of usufruct in the visigothic law analysis of the legal casuistry
This study will analyse the different typologies of usufruct and use included in the regulation of Visigothic Law and in particular with a view to the main legal bodies of the Goths.
Luis Miguel García Lozano
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The Arabic legal documents of Toledo: the merging of legal cultures in a society in transition
The Arabic documents from Toledo mirror a mosaic of laws and legal customs, together with the merging of laws and legal systems. Indeed, Christians, Muslims, and Jews of Toledo continued writing their legal documents in Arabic, following the pattern of ...
Rocío Daga Portillo
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"The Perfidy of the Jews": Visigothic Law and the Catholic Public Sphere
In this essay, I will analyze the Visigothic law code, the Forum judicum, as revised by King Recceswinth in 654 CE and King Erwig in 681 CE, in order to examine Visigothic society as envisioned by its lawmakers. In particular, I will focus on the role of Jews in this social framework.
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Archaeological and Chemical Investigation on Mortars and Bricks from a Necropolis in Braga, Northwest of Portugal. [PDF]
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M. Sczaniecki, Wybór źródeł do historii państwa i prawa w dobie nowożytnej. Cz. I: Teksty do historii burżuazyjnego prawa państwowego (Bogdan Lesiński) ... 268 H. Planitz, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte (Jerzy Walachowicz) ...
CPH 25(2)1973
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The Text of Visigothic Law in Practice
This essay is a case study in the textual transmission of the Visigothic law code or Book of Judgements (Liber Iudiciorum). Rather than relying solely on manuscript copies, I draw on charters as sources for the text, and by tracking the citation of treason law across the corpus of documentation from early medieval Asturias-León and Navarra, I identify ...
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Tipologies of usufruct in the visigothic law. Analysis of the legal casuistry
Derecho
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