Norms beyond Empire

Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Ph.D. (2012), is Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-Consolidator Grant (ERC-CoG) funded project ‘IberLAND’.

Preface

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors



1 Decentering Law and Empire: Law-Making, Local Normativities, and the Iberian Empires in Asia

 Manuel Bastias Saavedra

2 Village Normativities and the Portuguese Imperial Order: The Case of Early Modern Goa

 Ângela Barreto Xavier

3 The Principales of Philip II: Vassalage, Justice, and the Making of Indigenous Jurisdiction in the Early Colonial Philippines

 Abisai Pérez Zamarripa

4 Catholics and Non-Christians in the Archbishopric of Goa

 Provincial Councils, Conversion, and Local Dynamics in the Production of Norms (16th–18th Centuries)
 Patricia Souza de Faria

5 “Que los indios no puedan vender sus hijas para contraer matrimonio”: Understanding and Regulating Bridewealth and Brideservice in the Spanish Colonial Period of the Philippines

 Marya Svetlana T. Camacho

6 The Janus Face of Normativities in a Global Mirror: Viewing 16th-Century Marriage Practices in Japan from Christian and Japanese Traditions

 Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva

7 On Gentilidade as a Religious Offence: A Specificity of the Portuguese Inquisition in Asia?

 Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço

8 Theology in the Dark: The Missionary Casuistry of Japan Jesuits and Dominicans during the Tokugawa Persecution (1616–1622)

 Rômulo da Silva Ehalt

9 Finding Norms for the Chinese Mission: The Hat Controversy in the Canton Conference of 1667/1668

 Marina Torres Trimállez

10 Time as Norm: The Ritual Dimension of the Calendar Book and the Translation of Multi-Temporality in Late Imperial China

 Fupeng Li

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