Knowledge of the Pragmatici

Thomas Duve is Director at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt am Main) and Professor for Comparative Legal History at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His research focuses on the legal history of the early modern age and the modern era. Otto Danwerth is Head of the editorial department at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt am Main). His research areas are early modern Spain and Ibero-America until the eighteenth century, with a focus on the Andean region.

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1 Pragmatic Normative Literature and the Production of Normative Knowledge in the Early Modern Iberian Empires (16th–17th Centuries)

 Thomas Duve

2 Putting Roman and Canon Law in a Nutshell: Developments in the Epitomisation of Legal Texts between Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period

 Christoph H.F. Meyer

3 The Circulation of Pragmatic Normative Literature in Spanish America (16th– 17th Centuries)

 Otto Danwerth

4 Presence and Use of Pragmatic Legal Literature in Habsburg Peru (16th– 17th Centuries)

 Renzo Honores

5 Jesuit Pragmatic Literature and Ecclesiastical Normativity in Portuguese America (16th– 18th Centuries)

 Gustavo César Machado Cabral

6 Managing Legal Knowledge in Early Modern Times: Martín de Azpilcueta’s Manual for Confessors and the Phenomenon of Epitomisation

 Manuela Bragagnolo

7 Pragmatic or Heretic? Editing Catechisms in Mexico in the Age of Discoveries and Reformation (1539– 1547)

 José Luis Egío

8 Producing Pragmatic Literature in the Third Mexican Provincial Council (1585)

 Osvaldo R. Moutin

9 Shaping Colonial Behaviours: Franciscan Missionary Literature and the Implementation of Religious Normative Knowledge in Colonial Mexico (1530s–1640s)

 David Rex Galindo

10 “Just Rules” for a “Religiosity of Simple People”: Devotional Literature and Inquisitorial Trials in Cartagena de Indias (17th– 18th Centuries)

 Pilar Mejía

11 Forensic Practices and the “History of Justice” in the 17th and 18th Centuries: a View from a Spanish American Periphery

 Agustín Casagrande



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