Constitutional Moments

Xavier Gil, Ph.D. (1989), University of Barcelona, is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Barcelona. He has published numerous works on Iberian and European political thought and culture, including La fábrica de la Monarquía. Traza y conservación de la Monarquía de España de los Reyes Católicos y los Austrias (Real Academia de la Historia, 2016).

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Notes on Contributors


Introduction

  Xavier Gil



Part 1

Ancient and Medieval Times



1 The Critic of the Family (oikos) at the Foundations of Plato’s Political Doctrine Myth and Reality

  Luc Brisson



2 The Influence of Roman Law on Medieval Bulgarian Legislation Sources and Developments of the Main Constitutional Issues

  Petar Cholakov



Part 2

Renaissance and Early Modern Era

Section 1

Myths and Politics



3 Biscay in the Spanish Monarchy Myth, History, and Law in the Making of Its Constitutional Regime (14th to 17th Centuries)

  Jon Arrieta



4 The Myth of Sobrarbe between Old Europe and the New World A Reassessment

  Angela De Benedictis



5 Law, Wisdom, and Politics in Making Süleyman “The Lawgiver”

  Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz



Section 2

Governance and Change

6 After Revolts Moments for Constitutional Refashioning in Early Modern Europe

  Xavier Gil



7 Accommodatio in the Jesuit Constitutions

  Jaska Kainulainen



8 The Monarchical Moment Constitutionalism, Lutheran Political Thought, and the Rise of Danish Absolutism

  Brian Kjær Olesen



9 A Model Republican Constitution? Guicciardini vs. Machiavelli on the Roman Example

  Nikola Regent



10 The Union of Utrecht An Unfinished Constitutional Definition between Federalism and Particularism in the Low Countries (1579–1621)

  Alberto Mariano Rodríguez Martínez



Part 3

The Enlightenment

11 Ancient Constitutionalism in the Age of Enlightenment The Case of Denmark-Norway

  Håkon Evju



12 Rousseau and Poland Pragmatic Rebirth Rather than Idealistic Reforms?

  Mark J. Hill



13 The Lawgiver in Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Political Thought Charting Mediterranean Liberalism

  Adriana Luna-Fabritius



14 From Masterpiece of Modern Legislation to an Aristocratic Oligarchy Contemporary European Appraisals of the Swedish Constitution of the Age of Liberty (1719–1772)

  Ere Nokkala



Part 4

The Nineteenth Century

15 “Dark Spots of Our History” Martínez Marina and Foundational Myths in Eighteenth-Century Spain

  Pablo Fernández Albaladejo



16 The Metamorphoses of a Historical Constitution Longue durée Developments in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Constitutional and Political Thought

  Ferenc Hörcher and Thomas Lorman



17 Constitutional Imagination and “Catholic” Political Anthropology The Grammar of the Mixed Constitution in the Mid-19th Century Crisis of Spanish Liberalism

  Pablo Sánchez León



Part 5

The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

18 The Weimar Constitutional Moment Constitutionalism, Theoretical Debate and Political Conflict

  Ersin Yildiz



19 The Portuguese Estado Novo Constitutional Process as a Model for Transitioning to Authoritarianism in the Europe of the New Order

  José Reis Santos



20 The Framing of a Liberal Democratic Constitution in Post-War Western Germany

  Niall Bond



21 From 1989 to 2010 Founding Myths and Moments of the Liberal and the Illiberal Constitutional Revolutions in Hungary

  Nóra Chronowski and András L. Pap



Part 6

Theoretical Issues

22 An Unbroken Continuity? Constitutional Crises and Historical Imagination

  Javier Fernández-Sebastián



23 The Dirty Secret of New Beginnings Founding a Democracy between Nothing and Narration

  Mareike Gebhardt



Index