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23 August 2018

CONFERENCE - Law & Order. The role of the institutions in creating the legislation in the Low Countries (1500-1700s) (8 OCTOBER 2018)

The history of legislation should not be limited to the study of legislative acts’ content. Legislation can clearly be seen as an instrument of early modern governments, but it must also be considered as a tool of communication between those that rule and their subjects. Understood as a communication process, the study of the early modern legislation decisively opens up a new angle in this field of research. Therefore, it must be realized that the history of legislation should be considered through a plural and multifactorial approach.


Amongst the possible angles, we have chosen:
 
The decision-making process should certainly receive attention. The study of the early modern legislation must necessarily echo the decision-making process by which a simple act’s draft becomes an edict ready to be proclaimed and/or printed. Considering the study of the decision-making process implies to question the value of advices and deliberations taking place before the edict’s promulgation. To what extent did the legislator rely on advice issued by provincial or local authorities? How was managed the flow of communication between different institutions or between different jurisdictions? This means mapping this communication, not just on a central level, but also provincially and locally. Another element, complementary to the first, is the publication of legislation. It has always been essential to ensure a good dissemination and good publicity when promulgating legislation. The authority of the government was at stake.
 
If the oral dissemination of the law during the Middle Ages is a well-studied topic, we cannot say the same regarding the impact of print on oral practices linked to the law’s publication. For instance, to what extent have the rulers pushed to use the printed version of an edict to complement an oral announcement?? Furthermore, the question of the (in)effectiveness of legislation should also be asked. By considering ex-post-analysis methods we can judge the (non-)applicability of legislation, arguments of subjects regarding disobedience or mobilisation of legislation in court. Legislation should thus be placed in a social context, as social phenomena can be enforced. It is therefore also fruitful to question the interconnectedness and reciprocal influence of legal sources. One might think about the customary law incorporated in legislative acts or foreign influences.
 
With this workshop, our aim is to draw attention to specific territories, i.e. the Habsburg Netherlands and the United Provinces. Although following diverging paths from 1560’s onwards, these areas do share a common legal past making early modern legislation interesting to study. Therefore it is important and even necessary to be able to study these two political spaces together in order to be able to highlight specific practices, both those that form a common ground and those that make the areas unique.
 
By bringing together researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands, this one-day workshop intends to shed light on a poorly studied phenomenon but genuinely key for the early modern period.
 
Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. A discussion will be held at the end of each session.
Program
9.30 Welcome
9.55 Introduction
 
10.00 Key-note: Jorgen Mührmann-Lund (Århus) - Interstate influences on early modern police ordinances
 
10.45 Session 1
Chair : Louis Sicking (Leiden/ VUAmsterdam)
 
Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly (Red Star Line Museum) - “De publicatie van den niewe ordonnantie”. The making and printing of ordinances and instructions for the Court of Holland, 1462-1811
 
Arthur der Weduwen (St. Andrews) - Publishing and Distributing Government Print in the Dutch Golden Age.
 
11.45 Posters session : Kevin DeKoster (UGent); Lies van Aelst (UU/Wethoudersvereniging); Inès Glogowski (VUB/UCLouvain).
 
12.00 Lunch
 
13.15 Session 2
Chair : Griet Vermeesch (VUB)
 
Xavier Rousseaux (FNRS/UCLouvain) et Romain Parmentier (UCLouvain) - Touchy Questions ?  Decriminalizing the body in the Austrian Netherlands : the example of Suicide and Torture      
 
Nicolas Simon (FNRS/UCLouvain/USL-B) - (In)effectiveness of the legislation in the Habsburg Netherlands (1598-1665)
 
Annemieke Romein (UGhent/EUR) - Establishing and implementing security-regulations and ‘Bona Politia’ in Flanders (1579-1701). Concepts, Normative Texts, and Instruments.
 
15.00 tea break
 
15.15 Conclusion - René Vermeir (Ghent)
 
15.45 Discussion & Future Prospects - Annemieke Romein (UGent/EUR) & Jorgen Mührmann-Lund (Århus)
 
16.00 End
Practical Information
October 18, 2018
University Saint-Louis - Brussels
Bd Jardin Botanique, 43
B-Brussels 1000
 
Room : P 61
Here you'll find information on how to get to U. Saint-Louis.
Here you'll find a Saint-Louis' site map.
 
If you wish to attend the conference, we would be grateful if you could contact the organizers.
Free entrance.
 
Organization & Contact
Dr. Nicolas Simon : n.simon@uclouvain.be 
Dr. Annemieke Romein : annemieke.romein@ugent.be

(source: https://www.crhidi.be/2018/10/18/law-order-the-role-of-the-institutions-in-creating-the-legislation-in-the-low-countries-1500-1700s/)

JOURNAL/REVUE/TIJDSCHRIFT: Pro Memorie. Bijdragen tot de Rechtsgeschiedenis der Nederlanden XX (2018), afl. 1

(image source: OVR/Verloren)

Artikels:

  • Jos Monbally, "De doostraf in het Leiedepartement, 1796-1814" (4-28)
  • Sander van Diepen, "Bataafse referenda: de Staatsregeling van 1798-1805 aangegaan als Rousseaus Contrat Social" (29-56)
  • Kees Schaapveld, "Grondwetten en bestuur van de Noordelijke en Zuidelijke Nederlanden, 1795-1815" (57-74)
  • Vincent Tassenaer, "Reikwijdte en legitimatie van de Nederlandse dienstplicht in de dageraad van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (1814-1820)" (75-95)
  • Stephanie Plasschaert, "Over de negentiende-eeuwse Nautische Commissie, zeewaardigheidsinspecties en de classificatiemaatschappijen te Antwerpen" (96-117)
  • Raymond Schütz, "Het eeuwig terugkerende rechtsherstel" (1945-2017) (118-140)
Recensies:
  • Serge Dauchy et al. (eds.), The formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture (Kees Cappon) (142-148)
  • Paul De Hert et al. (eds.), De Federalist Papers (Maarten Colette) (148-151)
  • P.L. Nève & G.A.M. Van Synghel (red.), Een veertiende-eeuws register van de cijnzen van de Brabantse hertog in Lenculen en Maastricht (Arie van Steensel) (151-152)
  • Willem Van den Berg, Het korte, bewogen leven van Willem Gabriel Vervloet, Haags uitgever (Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly) (153-154)
  • Lode Wils, Frans Van Cauwelaert. Politieke biografie (Frederik Dhondt) (154-157)
  • W.E. Meiboom, Bijzonder bestraft - Michiel Severein, Alles is gedaan om het recht te vinden (Paul Brood) (157-158)
Meer informatie hier.

Het tijdschrift Pro Memorie publiceert met een paar jaar vertraging alle nummers in open access op de website. Zie hier.

22 August 2018

JOB VACANCY DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP : EARLY MODERN HISTORY : THE DUTCH REVOLT (DEADLINE 14 SEP)

The Leuven Research Unit Early Modern History is looking for a motivated doctoral student. You will carry out innovative scientific research on the history of the Dutch Revolt, and in particular, you will focus on the impact of public and secret executions, both on royal and rebel side.

Burials were highly explosive matters in the sixteenth-century strife between Catholics and Protestants. When Catholics continued to insist on the sacrament of the Last Anointing, a funeral mass led by the priest and a burial in sacred ground, Protestantsrejected this ‘ritual industry’, and came to defend a sober ars moriendi and a plain burial indesignated though not sacred cemeteries. For the Holy Roman Empire, the BritishIsles and France, it has been extensively documented how burials thus induced confessional disputes and even religious
violence, but strikingly sources in theearly modern Low Countries do not register similar outbursts in or around cemeteries.
This research project examines this absence of outspoken religious violence, by testing the hypothesis that it was eventually prevented through a remarkable management of death at different levels. This management consisted of the multi-level prescriptions of local, central and ecclesiastical authorities on the crucial rite depassage, as well as the engagement of local citizens with the manner in which burials could and should take place. Moreover, it argues that this top-downand bottom-up management of death led to the unforeseen outcome that at least from 1576 onwards, regulation systematically included provisional pacificationmeasures for the ‘other’ confession, a procedure eventually surviving in the Dutch Republic.
The project thus aims to explain why the Low Countries were an exception to the rule, and why and how bereaved during the Dutch Revolt could rest in peace. We are looking for an additional doctoral student in this project, while Dra. Louise Deschryver examines the emotional and sensorial repertoires of death duing the Dutch Revolt within the framework of this project. You can apply until 14 September 2018.
A complete description can be found in this link!
For more information, please contact prof.dr Violet Soen (the supervisor of the PhD) and Louise Deschryver.

15 August 2018

VACATURE- POSTE VACANT ULB: BOURSE DE RECHERCHE SEED MONEY (DEADLINE 15 sep 2018)




Le Centre d’histoire du droit et d’anthropologie juridique (CHDAJ)  accueillera pour une durée d’une année, à partir du 1er octobre 2018, un chercheur boursier en histoire du droit.

Cette bourse s’adresse à des étudiants récemment diplômés qui souhaitent commencer une thèse de doctorat en histoire du droit.

La durée de la bourse, octroyée par l’Université libre de Bruxelles, sera mise à profit pour élaborer un projet de thèse de doctorat en vue d’obtenir un financement complémentaire de trois ou quatre ans.

Le projet de thèse portera sur l’histoire du droit et de la justice dans l’espace belge. Seront privilégiés, les projets portant sur l’histoire de la profession d’avocat.

Les candidats seront titulaires d’une maîtrise en droit, d’une maîtrise en histoire ou d’une maîtrise en sociologie.

Date limite d’envoi des candidatures : 15 septembre 2018
Contact : Prof. J. de Brouwer (jerome.de.brouwer@ulb.ac.be)