Norms Beyond Empire

Law-Making and Local Normativities in Iberian Asia, 1500-1800
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47282-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

Reihe: Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds

Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing the role of local normative production. While European imperialism is often viewed as being able to shape colonial law and government to its image, this volume argues that early modern empires could never monolithically control how these processes unfolded. Examining the Iberian empires in Asia, it seeks to look at norms as a means of escaping the often too narrow concept of law and look beyond empire to highlight the ways in which law-making and local normativities frequently acted beyond colonial rule. The ten chapters explore normative production from this perspective by focusing on case studies from China, India, Japan, and the Philippines.



Contributors are: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Marya Svetlana T. Camacho, Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, Patricia Souza de Faria, Fupeng Li, Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço, Abisai Perez Zamarripa, Marina Torres Trimállez, and Ângela Barreto Xavier.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bastias Saavedra, Manuel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 Decentering Law and Empire: Law-Making, Local Normativities, and the Iberian Empires in Asia

Manuel Bastias Saavedra

2 Village Normativities and the Portuguese Imperial Order: The Case of Early Modern Goa

Ângela Barreto Xavier

3 The Principales of Philip II: Vassalage, Justice, and the Making of Indigenous Jurisdiction in the Early Colonial Philippines

Abisai Pérez Zamarripa

4 Catholics and Non-Christians in the Archbishopric of Goa

Provincial Councils, Conversion, and Local Dynamics in the Production of Norms (16th–18th Centuries)
Patricia Souza de Faria

5 “Que los indios no puedan vender sus hijas para contraer matrimonio”: Understanding and Regulating Bridewealth and Brideservice in the Spanish Colonial Period of the Philippines

Marya Svetlana T. Camacho

6 The Janus Face of Normativities in a Global Mirror: Viewing 16th-Century Marriage Practices in Japan from Christian and Japanese Traditions

Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva

7 On Gentilidade as a Religious Offence: A Specificity of the Portuguese Inquisition in Asia?

Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço

8 Theology in the Dark: The Missionary Casuistry of Japan Jesuits and Dominicans during the Tokugawa Persecution (1616–1622)

Rômulo da Silva Ehalt

9 Finding Norms for the Chinese Mission: The Hat Controversy in the Canton Conference of 1667/1668

Marina Torres Trimállez

10 Time as Norm: The Ritual Dimension of the Calendar Book and the Translation of Multi-Temporality in Late Imperial China

Fupeng Li

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Ph.D. (2012), is Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-Consolidator Grant (ERC-CoG) funded project ‘IberLAND’.