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The Western Codification of Criminal Law
This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law. More specifically, it focuses on the extent of French influence – among others – in European and American civil law jurisdictions. In this regard, the book seeks to dispel a number of myths concerning the French model’s actual influence on European and Latin American criminal codes. The impact of the Napoleonic criminal code on other jurisdictions was real, but the scope and extent of its influence were significantly less than has sometimes been claimed. The overemphasis on French influence on other civil law jurisdictions is partly due to a fundamental assumption that modern criminal codes constituted a break with the past. The question as to whether they truly broke with the past or were merely a degree of reform touches on a difficult issue, namely, the dichotomy between tradition and foreign influences in the codification of criminal law. Scholarship has unfairly ignored this important subject, an oversight that this book remedies.
Vítimas e violências na Lisboa da I República
Vítimas e Violências na Lisboa da I República é um livro que ambiciona responder a duas questões principais: apurar o papel da violência nas relações sociais e perceber o que, na Lisboa desse tempo, significava ser vítima, quem era ela, o que fazia, porque o fora e como era olhada pelos poderes. A investigação apoiou-se numa fonte inexplorada: os exames diretos e de sanidade efetuados, pelos peritos do Instituto de Medicina Legal de Lisboa, às vítimas de crimes contra a segurança, nos anos de 1912 e de 1926. A investigação conclui que a vítima, ainda que fosse essencial a afirmação do poder, foi muito pouco considerada, quer pelo Direito, quer pela Medicina Legal, saberes e poderes mais preocupados com a repressão do agressor. A origem popular, a profissão, o comportamento, o traje, o analfabetismo e a linguagem reforçavam a convicção de que pouco separava o ofendido do ofensor, ambos encerrados num mesmo mundo de desvio. E para assegurar o monopólio da violência pelas elites no poder, à medida que a violência popular era criminalizada, escondia-se e esquecia-se a dimensão sociabilitária da agressão.
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.
Envoys of a Human God
In Envoys of A Human God Andreu Martínez offers a comprehensive study of the religious mission led by the Society of Jesus in Christian Ethiopia. The mission to Ethiopia was one of the most challenging undertakings carried out by the Catholic Church in early modern times. The book examines the period of early Portuguese contacts with the Ethiopian monarchy, the mission’s main developments and its aftermath, with the expulsion of the Jesuit missionaries. The study profits from both an intense reading of the historical record and the fruits of recent archaeological research. Long-held historiographical assumptions are challenged and the importance of cultural and socio-political factors in the attraction and ultimate estrangement between European Catholics and Ethiopian Christians is highlighted.
(Dis)connected Empires
(Dis)connected Empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empire, the empire of Kotte in Sri Lanka, and the Catholic Monarchy of the Spanish Habsburgs. It explores nine decades of connections, cross-cultural diplomacy, and dialogue, to answer one troubling question: why, in the end, did one side decide to conquer the other? To find the answer, Biedermann explores the imperial ideas that shaped the politics of Renaissance Iberia and sixteenth-century Sri Lanka. (Dis)connected Empires argues that, whilst some of these ideas and the political idioms built around them were perceived as commensurate by the variou...
The American Historical Review
American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
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