【道法古今論壇第36期】

Books and Normative Knowledge in the Early Modern Period： A Contribution to Material Legal History

近代早期的書籍與規範性知識：一個物質法律史的視角

主講人：Manuela Bragagnolo

University of Trento/Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

與談人：

郭琛

伟德这个平台怎么样

郭逸豪

伟德这个平台怎么样

趙博陽

上海社科院宗教研究所

主持人：

李富鵬

伟德这个平台怎么样

講座簡介：

How was normative knowledge produced in the early modern period? One obvious way to answer this question is to study the contents of legal books. This would mean to identify normative knowledge with legal thinking, namely with the intellectual output of the “so-called” author.

But we can also look at these books as material objects, and combine methods and questions from book history and legal history. This second approach that we can call “material legal history”, invites us to consider that knowledge was also the result of material and social processes of production. Early modern legal “authors”, amongst many others actors, were actively involved in these processes, thus contributing to the production of knowledge with more than just their thoughts.

My talk takes this second approach and looks at a specific kind of normative book, «pragmatic» books. Mobilising the knowledge that was needed to produce normative statements, pragmatic books were widespread in the West in the early modern period and circulated largely in the frontier regions of the Early Modern Empires.

Concerning pragmatic normative books, I will explore the notion of early modern legal authorship, which was very much related to authority and included a wider range of activities than just writing a book. I will show how, in the case of pragmatic normative books, this could actively be constructed by “authors”. I will therefore focus on the agency of early modern legal authors in the editorial system as an important component of the production of normative knowledge.

Suggested Readings:

Duve, Thomas, Otto Danwerth (eds.) (2020), Knowledge of the pragmatici: Legal and Moral Theological Literature and the Formation of Early Modern Ibero-America, Leiden

https://brill.com/view/title/56781

Duve, Thomas et al. (eds.) (2021), The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Production, Leiden

https://brill.com/view/title/59717

HESPANHA, ANTÓNIO MANUEL (2008), Form and content in early modern legal books. Bridging the gap between material bibliography and the history of legal thought, in: Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History 12, 12-50

http://rg.rg.mpg.de/en/article_id/579

會議時間：2021年11月30日（周二）19:00—21:00（北京時間）

會議軟件：Zoom會議

會議鍊接：http://zoom.us/j/91207758223

會議号：912 0775 8223（密碼：286415 可通過掃描下方二維碼參與）

講座語言：英語