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Norms beyond Empire
Law-Making and Local Normativities in Iberian Asia, 1500-1800
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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 Ãngela Barreto Xavier.
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 Ãngela Barreto Xavier.
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 âIberLANDâ.
"Norms beyond Empire is an impressive, well-researched book composed of nine case studies plus an introductory essay, which amply does what Saavedra promises: a comparative, interdisciplinary study of the coexistence and interaction of different normative orders across China, South India, Japan, and the Philippines." - Alexandre Coello de la Rosa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra â ICREA Academia, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies 10 (2023), p. 141
"This edited volume opens up new avenues for the exploration of law, specifically 'norms,' within the early modern Spanish and Portuguese empires in Asia. ... The volume thus fulfils a major objective of what has become known as 'global legal history': transcending the narrow confines of law and embracing a broader understanding of what exercised a binding force among Iberian and Asian societies and cultures." - Pedro Cardim, NOVA University Lisbon, in: Journal of Early Modern History 28 (2024)
"The volume's greatest strength is that while focused on one particular set of contexts in early modern Asia, it transcends its geographical and chronological limits, and invites the reader to reexamine old orthodoxies regarding the state, law and society, be they in Asia, Europe, or elsewhere." - Stuart M. McManus, in: Ler História 81 (2022) [Online]
"This edited volume opens up new avenues for the exploration of law, specifically 'norms,' within the early modern Spanish and Portuguese empires in Asia. ... The volume thus fulfils a major objective of what has become known as 'global legal history': transcending the narrow confines of law and embracing a broader understanding of what exercised a binding force among Iberian and Asian societies and cultures." - Pedro Cardim, NOVA University Lisbon, in: Journal of Early Modern History 28 (2024)
"The volume's greatest strength is that while focused on one particular set of contexts in early modern Asia, it transcends its geographical and chronological limits, and invites the reader to reexamine old orthodoxies regarding the state, law and society, be they in Asia, Europe, or elsewhere." - Stuart M. McManus, in: Ler História 81 (2022) [Online]
Preface
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Decentering Law and Empire: Law-Making, Local Normativities, and the Iberian Empires in Asia
âManuel Bastias Saavedra
2 Village Normativities and the Portuguese Imperial Order: The Case of Early Modern Goa
âÃngela Barreto Xavier
3 The Principales of PhilipII : Vassalage, Justice, and the Making of Indigenous Jurisdiction in the Early Colonial Philippines
âAbisai Pérez Zamarripa
4 Catholics and Non-Christians in the Archbishopric of Goa
âProvincial Councils, Conversion, and Local Dynamics in the Production of Norms (16thâ18th Centuries) âPatricia Souza de Faria
5 âQue los indios no puedan vender sus hijas para contraer matrimonioâ: Understanding and Regulating Bridewealth and Brideservice in the Spanish Colonial Period of the Philippines
âMarya 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
âLuisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
7 On Gentilidade as a Religious Offence: A Specificity of the Portuguese Inquisition in Asia?
âMiguel Rodrigues Lourenço
8 Theology in the Dark: The Missionary Casuistry of Japan Jesuits and Dominicans during the Tokugawa Persecution (1616â1622)
âRômulo da Silva Ehalt
9 Finding Norms for the Chinese Mission: The Hat Controversy in the Canton Conference of 1667/1668
âMarina Torres Trimállez
10 Time as Norm: The Ritual Dimension of the Calendar Book and the Translation of Multi-Temporality in Late Imperial China
âFupeng Li
Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Decentering Law and Empire: Law-Making, Local Normativities, and the Iberian Empires in Asia
âManuel Bastias Saavedra
2 Village Normativities and the Portuguese Imperial Order: The Case of Early Modern Goa
âÃngela Barreto Xavier
3 The Principales of Philip
âAbisai Pérez Zamarripa
4 Catholics and Non-Christians in the Archbishopric of Goa
âProvincial Councils, Conversion, and Local Dynamics in the Production of Norms (16thâ18th Centuries) âPatricia Souza de Faria
5 âQue los indios no puedan vender sus hijas para contraer matrimonioâ: Understanding and Regulating Bridewealth and Brideservice in the Spanish Colonial Period of the Philippines
âMarya 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
âLuisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
7 On Gentilidade as a Religious Offence: A Specificity of the Portuguese Inquisition in Asia?
âMiguel Rodrigues Lourenço
8 Theology in the Dark: The Missionary Casuistry of Japan Jesuits and Dominicans during the Tokugawa Persecution (1616â1622)
âRômulo da Silva Ehalt
9 Finding Norms for the Chinese Mission: The Hat Controversy in the Canton Conference of 1667/1668
âMarina Torres Trimállez
10 Time as Norm: The Ritual Dimension of the Calendar Book and the Translation of Multi-Temporality in Late Imperial China
âFupeng Li
Index
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