When: Tuesday, 10th December 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm (UTC+2).
Where: Main Building, U3039 You can also join us online via Zoom:
Zoom Meeting https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/69884090650?pwd=NLa3dJkFLBVOsu1jre3x3eHUKHeNY9.1]https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/69884090650?pwd=NLa3dJkFLBVOsu1jre3x3eHUKHeNY9.1
Meeting ID: 698 8409 0650 Passcode: 921724
We are excited to welcome Professor Pedro Cardim from Nova University Lissabon to give a seminar talk titled:"Corporations and Jurisdictional Culture: Exploring the Political Identity of Early Modern Iberian Monarchies."
Abstract: The corporate character of early modern Western European societies has been a longstanding subject of academic study. The aim of this survey is to assess the extraordinary potential, but also some of the limitations of this interpretive framework. Focusing on the early modern Spanish and Portuguese monarchies and the place of corporations in their social and political order, the first part of this presentation highlights the main features of corporate societies in early modern Iberia. It then turns to two prominent components of this form of social organization: legal pluralism and jurisdictional politics. The third part is devoted to a reflection on the limitations of this way of understanding the social and political order upon which premodern societies rested. Apart from presenting an overview of the scholarly work on early modern corporate societies, this historiographic survey ultimately advocatesfor the importance of this kind of analytical framework for understanding early modern Iberia.
This seminar is part of the Helsinki Legal History Series in collaboration with the CoCoLaw project. In 2024 the Helsinki Legal History Series runs under the theme of "Identities and Legal Histories". We are focusing on the questions of how have collective identities shaped law, and how has law been used to affect, change or protect common identities? Does law recognize marginalized identities or is the history of law a narrative of exclusion?