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Centers of legal history: Leiden
A fortnight ago I wrote about Frits Grapperhaus, the deceased Leiden specialist of the history of taxation. At the very moment that I would like to write about Leiden as a center of legal history...
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Switched off?
Current developments in Egypt, the exhibition in Haarlem of a copy of the famous "Description de l'Égypte" (1809-1829) and information about online projects concerning papyri from Egypte come together...
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The voice of Hammurabi
Among the oldest existing laws are several codes of law from the Ancient Near East. Surely the most famous of them is the Code of Hammurabi. Since the stele with the text of this Babylonian law was...
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Open the gates! Digitized journals on legal history
Talking and writing about digital libraries can be hampered by very different views about the making, form and contents of a digital library. Nowadays we take a digitized catalogue for granted, and...
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Rivista di Diritto Ellenico, a new e-journal for ancient Greek law
A few days ago the French legal history blog Nomôdos, the twin sister of the e-journal Clio@Themis, announced the first issue of the Rivista di Diritto Ellenico, a journal devoted to the study of...
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A new forum on ancient Greek law
This week I received information from Emiliano J. Buis (Buenos Aires) about a new platform for the study of ancient Greek law, the Grupo de Trabajo sobre Derecho Griego Arcaico y Clásico y sus...
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Democracy in ancient Athens
A recent Dutch book on the history of democracy in ancient Athens offers in this post a welcome opportunity to look at new digital resources concerning the Athenian democracy. This post benefits in...
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Journeys to journals on Classical Antiquity
Lists can have uncanny powers. They might seem to offer everything available or they bring the best possible selection. A good list can enhance the authority of its author, and users of such lists...
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Messages on stones and histories in fragments
In this post I will look at a number of projects presenting ancient inscriptions online. Often it is possible to find here materials which are somehow also relevant for legal history. New technologies...
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In December 2009 I started my blog on legal history, and every year I look back in particular to see how far I succeeded in "spanning centuries and continents", a phrase I used in an early post. The...
View ArticleA true professor: Knut Wolfgang Nörr, legal historian and lawyer
In the midst of all kind of things, not only preparing new posts for this blog, I read news which made me pause for thought, and more than that. It is truly sad to hear that Knut Wolfgang Nörr passed...
View ArticleGuillaume Budé, a (legal) humanist
How did the interest in the history of Roman law start in Early Modern Europe? In the Middle Ages scholars who got access to the famous Codex Florentinus, a sixth-century manuscript with the text of...
View ArticleGathering graphic evidence on false inscriptions
Doing research in legal history means dealing with facts and theories. Provided you have conscientiously worked with the facts at hand it becomes possible to verify theories. In this century we have to...
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