From the department of Historical Regimes of Normativity at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
The Spider and its Web. Travel Notes on the Trail of Martín de Azpilcueta’s Agents and Lost – or Never Sought – Library
Pamplona, day 1 (evening): Seventh, do not steal. Chapter 17, as we all know, is rather lengthy. Those pages of the Manual swirl in the cool air of a June evening in Pamplona as I leave the antiquarian bookstore in the narrow street near the Archivo General y Real de Navarra.
Alte Drucke mit der Signatur „Kan“: Vormodernes Wissen über kirchliche Normativität im Spiegel der Institutsbibliothek
Weshalb und wie wurden die frühneuzeitlichen Buchbestände der Institutsbibliothek im Bereich von Kanonistik und Theologie seit 2009 ausgebaut? Einige Ziele und Ergebnisse.
From Paper to Screen: Lessons from the Digital Edition of Luis de Molina’s De Iustitia et Iure
Preparing a digital collection of any erudite 16th or 17th century book is a collective effort. That is why the project team of The School of Salamanca combines scholars with different background, from philosophy to computer science, from Digital History to legal history. Every early modern author has his ideosyncracies, no two books translate into the digital format alike. But the experience in converting the seven print volumes of Luis de Molina’s De Iustitia et Iure into a digital edition (still a work in progress) turned out to be much more challenging than expected. .
Lost Eclipses and Found Manuscripts: Onomastic Overlaps or an Instance of the Making of Jesuit Intellectual Authority?
Recovering the vast corpus of Iberian casuistical literature produced in early modern Asia is fraught with challenges. One major hurdle is accurately identifying manuscripts and their authors. This post examines a recently unearthed manuscript attributed to Francisco Rodrigues (c. 1515–1573), a prominent Jesuit priest in early modern Portuguese India. It argues that the attribution is likely incorrect, while commenting on the complex process involved in the making of intellectual authorities in the early modern world.
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