Overview
- First book to cover the Great Council of Malines in the context of 18th century state formation
- Presents a unique large-scale statistical analysis of court records of the 15th to 18th centuries
- Includes a fully elaborated prosopographical study of councilors and their careers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Law and Justice (SHLJ, volume 3)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- 18th Century Members Of The Great Council
- Administering Justice
- Composite state
- Councilors of the 18th century
- Distribution Records of the 18th century Great Council
- Early modern provincial and central courts
- Great Council as an administrative body
- Great Council of Malines
- Great Council’s caseload
- Great Council’s inner workings
- Great Council’s jurisdiction
- Institutional history
- Jurisdiction as first instance tribunal
- Jurisdiction in appeal
- Legal history
- Nature of Litigation
- Privy Council
- Role of superior courts and the administration of justice
- State formation
- State versus the Church
- Types of Civil Litigation
- Un corps si fort audessus d’eux
- Volume of Litigation
- droit de terne
- l’oeil et le bras du Roi
About this book
This work studies the Great Council of Malines as an institution. It analyzes the Council’s internal organization and staff policy, its position within the broader society of the Austrian Netherlands, the volume and nature of litigation at the Council and its final years and ultimate demise in the late 18th and early 19th century. By means of this institutional study, this volume provides insight into the role played by the Great Council in the process of state-building in the 18th century Austrian Netherlands. While superior courts were once considered to be the prime agencies of change in the Early Modern Period, tools par excellence for the sovereigns’ striving towards centralization and superiority, their position in the 18th century has so far been barely touched upon. This work focuses specifically on the 18th century supreme court of the Austrian Netherlands and provides a broad overview with attention to other aspects of the tribunal's functioning and to its role in 18th century attempts at state formation.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Great Council of Malines in the 18th century
Book Subtitle: An Aging Court in a Changing World?
Authors: An Verscuren
Series Title: Studies in the History of Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09638-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09637-7Published: 30 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38208-1Published: 30 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09638-4Published: 15 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2198-9842
Series E-ISSN: 2198-9850
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 348
Number of Illustrations: 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, History, general, History of Philosophy