From the department of Historical Regimes of Normativity at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

Aged handwritten letter with faded ink and a large sun watermark bearing HIS, with a cross atop the H; detail from Damião’s letter.

A Letter to the Cook: Norms and Conversions in Early Modern Japan

Damião of Akitsuki, a Japanese brother of the Jesuit mission to Japan, was able to persuade merchants, warriors, and local lords to embrace Christianity, a faith brought from halfway across the globe. At a time when European missionaries could speak no more than a few phrases of Japanese, Damião allegedly would engage in complex debates with Buddhist monks and attest to the conversion of large groups of people.

Portada de 1608 con marco decorativo, gran escudo heráldico y texto en latín del Sacri Regii Cathaloniae Senatus

Correcto in hoc iure communi. Motivación de las sentencias en la Cataluña altomoderna

En la presente entrada expongo el objeto de mi investigación doctoral – el estilo judicial relativo a la motivación de las sentencias civiles de la Real Audiencia de Cataluña (1493-1639) en el contexto de la cultura jurisdiccional hispánica altomoderna – a la luz de las categorías y herramientas historiográficas.

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