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“The Golden Bull became a protective shield with a quill”
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Interview with Eva Schlotheuber about the first basic law of the Holy Roman Empire About the Author Prof. Dr. Eva Schlotheuber holds the Chair of Medieval History at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She was a fellow…
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“A legal system can comprise countless exceptions”
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Interview with Ulrike Ludwig and Peter Oestmann about the annual topic “Exception and Plurality” Exceptions confirm the rule. This everyday saying sums up a reciprocal and mutually dependent relationship. An exception can only be made…
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“What remains of the colonial period? Everything.”
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Interview with Heikki Pihlajamäki on early modern colonial laws The police legislation of the early modern period, which attempted to legally regulate wide areas of people‘s lives, has been extensively studied since the 1970s, especially…
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| FocusDid long-distance trade not have its own intrinsic logic?
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Report on the workshop “How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism. Northern Europe in the Later Middle Ages” on 5 and 6 October 2022 The workshop focused on merchants engaged in long-distance trade in late-medieval…
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A Kolleg moves
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The new rooms in the Iduna building offer plenty of space and a magnificent view Shouts echo through the long corridors, the two lifts are in constant use, and there is hustle and bustle everywhere.…
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“In Sub-Saharan Africa, particularism supports centrifugal tendencies”
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Interview with Dorothea Schulz on religious plurality in Africa The German government has just decided to withdraw the Bundeswehr troops from Mali. France and other countries have already taken this step and ended their military…
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“Jurisprudence is a strong unifying factor in the Middle Ages”
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Interview with Susanne Lepsius on law in the Middle Ages Susanne Lepsius has set her sights high: she is working at the Kolleg on a general volume that is intended to introduce readers with no…
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From exception to plurality?
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Report on the Käte Hamburger Kolleg annual conference, 15-17 September 2022 Is the relationship between unity and plurality similar to that between rule and exception? And do exceptions lead to legal pluralism? Or is it…
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Legal unity and pluralism at the 2022 Conference of Legal Historians
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Probably the most important such conference in the German-speaking world, the 43rd (German)[1] Conference of Legal Historians (Rechtshistorikertag) could at last take place in Zurich in August 2022.[2] Addressing the overarching theme of “Legal Forms…
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Interdisciplinary understanding and diversity of perspectives
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Report on the first internal workshop of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg at Landhaus Rothenberge on 2 and 3 June 2022 Do legal scholars and historians actually mean the same thing when they speak of legal…