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Borders of the Early Modern Ius Commune: England, Venice, and Scandinavia book cover

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Borders of the Early Modern Ius Commune England, Venice, and Scandinavia

Edited By Dolores Freda, Mario Piccinini, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Chiara Maria Valsecchi Copyright 2025
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge
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The culture of the ius commune has been a unifying element of European and Western legal civilization. As shown by several recent studies, the influence of ius commune extended much farther than its traditional core area. This volume discusses the expansion and changes of ius commune in three significant corners of Europe, which in the classical narrative either totally or partially were... Read more

1.      Borders of ius commune: Ius commune at the Borders

Dolores Freda, Mario Piccinini, Heikki Pihlajamäki, and Chiara Maria Valsecchi

 

PART I: IUS COMMUNE AND VENICE

 

2. Lawyers in Venice: A Curious Business

Silvia Gasparini

 

3. “Negari tamen non potest Venetos Ius Civile Romanorum colere et venerari”: Venetian Law and ius commune between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Claudia Passarella

 

4. Students, Graduates, or “Tourists”: Scholars from across the Borders in Padua in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Donato Gallo

 

5. Venetian Law and ius commune: The Origins of a Controversy

Alfredo Viggiano

 

PART II: IUS COMMUNE AND ENGLAND

 

6. The Invisible Border between Ius Commune and Common Law: Traditional Interpretations and New Prospects

Dolores Freda

 

7. Legal Pluralism in the Law Courts of Early Modern England

Sir John Baker

 

8. Roman Law in Sixteenth-Century England: Professor Thomas Smith

David Ibbetson

 

9. Common Lawyers and Civilian Lawyers in England: Barriers and Connections

R. H. Helmholz

 

10. Gerard Malynes and the "Ancient Law-Merchant": A View on the ius commune from the Borders

Stefania Gialdroni

 

PART III: IUS COMMUNE AND SCANDINAVIA

 

11.       Ius Commune at the Merchant Courts of the Hanse Kontor in Bergen?

Sören Koch

 

12. The Emergence of the Profession of Procurators: In Early Modern Denmark

Per Andersen

 

13. Adjusting the ius commune: The Swedish Legal Procedure in the Early Modern Period

Heikki Pihlajamäki

 

14. The Reception of the ius commune through German Law in Reformation Sweden (ca. 1530–1610): Torture, Police, and Crime

Mia Korpiola

 

EPILOGUE

 

15. Re-reading Arthur Duck: Ius commune and Insular Exceptionalism

Mario Piccinini and Chiara Maria Valsecchi

Biography

Dolores Freda is Professor of Legal History in the University "Federico II" of Naples, Italy.

Mario Piccinini has been Professor of Legal History at the University of Padua and is currently Senior Scholar at the same institution.

Heikki Pihlajamäki is Professor of Comparative Legal History and currently Academy Professor in the University of Helsinki

Chiara Maria Valsecchi is Professor of Legal History in the University of Padua.

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