Publications

Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
The Fabric of the Ordinary. The Council of Trent and the Governance of the Catholic Church in the Empire of Brazil (1840–1889)
Muito se escreveu sobre a tensão política entre ultramontanos e jurisdicionalistas liberais no Império do Brasil durante o reinado de D. Pedro II (1840-1889), tendo em vista o regime de padroado sui generis do país e, em particular, o escândalo da Questão Religiosa na década de 1870. Entre os lugares-comuns desta historiografia está a ideia de que o Concílio de Trento foi um conjunto normativo exclusivamente interpretado e implementado pelo clero e pelos ultramontanos, quando não uma imposição de Roma de cima para baixo e uma bandeira de luta contra as políticas liberais. Mas será que poderíamos manter esta interpretação se, em vez dos discursos eloquentes da correspondência diplomática e da imprensa, colocássemos em primeiro plano as práticas administrativas ordinárias? more

Sandra Michelle Röseler
Towards a Knowledge History of Chinese Law: An Introduction to the History of Chinese Administrative Law Science, Its Pioneering Actors, and Knowledge of Normativity, Asian Journal of Law and Society, S. 1–47 (2025). more

Luisa Stella Coutinho
Journal of Religious History, S. 1–20 (2025). more

Research Group Mutual Dependencies and Normative Production in Africa
‘Tramas Coloniais’ is a seven-episode Portuguese-language documentary podcast that delves into the intricate threads of colonialism in Africa, unraveling its diverse aspects, nuances and normativities. The project defines itself as a committed exploration of the intersections among methodologies in legal history, oral history and public history.
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Manuel Bastias Saavedra (Hg.)
Explore a new perspective on land relations with Ownership Regimes, which shifts focus from traditional legal views to socio-historical contexts. This book reveals how land holding was influenced by diverse practices, including doctrine, laws, customs, regional kinship, and community ties. By understanding these as components of a broader normative framework, scholars from different regions show how complex social, religious, and cultural norms shaped efficient and enduring land-use arrangements. It challenges historians and legal scholars to examine the interplay of these norms in the Iberian world, uncovering how they defined ownership, division, regulation, and conflict resolution in various regions. more

Liang Zhiping (梁治平)
Aus dem Chinesischen von Blandina Brösicke (Hg. Dabringhaus, S.; Duve, T.; van Ess, H.; Graf von Kalnein, A.; Yang, Z.). Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/New York (2024). more

Edited by Máximo Sozzo and Jorge Núñez
Los viajes de las ideas sobre la cuestión criminal hacia/desde Argentina. Traducción, lucha e innovación (1880–1955). Global Perspectives on Legal History 24.
Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie, Frankfurt am Main (2024). more

Karla Luzmer Escobar Hernández
Camino y ruptura: una historia gráfica de las prácticas jurídicas indígenas en el Cauca a principios del siglo XX. Universidad de los Andes, Ediciones Uniandes, Bogotá (2024). more

Thomas Duve
Otto Hintze und die Rechtswissenschaft. In: Otto Hintze. Werk und Wirkung in den historischen Sozialwissenschaften. Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte 346, S. 113 - 144 (Hg. Joas, H.; Neugebauer, W.).  Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main (2024). more

Caspar Ehlers
Bardo und Boso. Der Adel im sächsischen Herzogtum des 9. bis 11. Jahrhunderts und die Gründung Liesborns. In: Die Welt des Evangeliars. Liesborn und das Damenstift (9.-12. Jahrhundert). Liesborner Abteigespräche zur Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte 1/ Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Kreises Warendorf 65, S. 9 - 37 (Hg. von Ditfurth, J.; Sebastian, S.). Aschendorff, Münster (2024). more

Samuel Barbosa, Manuela Bragagnolo, Christiane Birr, Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva, Byron Ellsworth Hamann, Idalia García Aguilar, Pedro Guibovich Pérez, Natalia Maillard Álvarez, César Manrique Figueroa, Stuart M. McManus, Yoshimi Orii, David Rex Galindo, Airton Ribeiro, and Pedro Rueda Ramírez.
This volume explores the production of knowledge of normativity in the age of early modern globalisation by looking at an extraordinarily pragmatic and normative book: Manual de Confessores, by the Spanish canon law professor Martín de Azpilcueta (1492-1586). Intertwining expertise, methods, and questions of legal history and book history, this book follows the actors and analyses the factors involved in the production, circulation, and use of the Manual, both in printed and manuscript forms, in the territories of the early modern Iberian Empires and of the Catholic Church. It convincingly illustrates the different dynamics related to the materiality of this object that contributed to “glocal” knowledge production. more

Edited by Thomas Duve and Tamar Herzog more