![]() ![]() In other areas of academic endeavour – e.g. THE ORIGINS OF THIS PROJECT Anybody familiar with academic research management will be aware of the strength of the research model dominant in the natural sciences: on the basis of available knowledge, an hypothesis is put forward, information is collected in order to prove the veracity of the statement contained therein, and after analyzing and evaluating this information a conclusion is reached about this statement (true, untrue, or unproven). Observations by a Legal Anthropologist A. ClaessenĪ New Beginning of Law among Indigenous Peoples. Veenhof Aspects of Law and Order in Early State Societies H. Feldbrugge Glimpses of Indo-European Law S. Algra † The Earliest Law of Russia and its Sources F. SirksĪn Emerging Legal System in an Embryonic State. van der VlietĪn Aspect of Archaic Roman Law: Auctoritas tutoris B. Justice and Written Laws in the Formation of the Polis E. Printed and bound in The Netherlands.įoreword F. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill Academic Publishers provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers MA 01923, USA. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher. ISBN 90-04-13705-X © 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Brill Academic Publishers incorporates the imprint Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Box 605 Herndon VA 20172 United States of America Tel: +1 800 337-9255 (toll free, Canada & USA only) +1 703 661-1500 Fax: + 703 661-1501 E-mai:l Distributed in all other countries by: Turpin Distribution Services Ltd Blackhorse Road Letchworth Hertfordshire SG6 1HN United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1462 687528 Fax: +44 (0)1462 480947 E-mail: Ī C.I.P. ![]() Box 9000, 2300 PA Leiden, The Netherlands Distributed in Canada, USA and Mexico by: Brill Academic Publishers P.O. Published by: Brill Academic Publishers P.O. ‘Hence the ancient proverb’, he wrote, ‘you will be king if you do right if you do not, you will not.’ For when the Romans could not tolerate the proud domination of kings, they organised annual governments and a pair of consuls for the marks of kingship were not benevolence in counsel but pride in dominance.MARTINUS NIJHOFF PUBLISHERS LEIDEN / BOSTON Isidore of Seville, in the period’s most influential epitome of kingship, derived rex from regere, in the sense not only of ‘ruling’ but also of ‘doing right’ ( recte facere) and ‘putting right’ ( corrigere). Sixth- and seventh- century Europeans with only marginal education could also have known of the fall of the kings of Rome. ![]() What followed was a catalogue of deviants and backsliders. Samuel prophesied that a king would make God’s people his slaves, when the Israelites insisted that he provide them with one. This was not a good advertisement for royal rule. The Old Testament provided early medieval rulers with one of their main role models, and the Books of Kings would have been familiar for anyone exposed to basic Judaeo-Christian teaching. Nothing can be less readily assumed than that kings or emperors are the natural order of things.ĭiscussion of early medieval monarchy ought therefore to begin with a glance at the anti-monarchical traditions of the cultures most admired in the early Middle Ages. The records of the Jewish, Greek and Roman cultures that underpin European civilisation are laden with suspicion of individualistic authority. In the first millennium bc, a number of the most self-confident societies were not. A good part of it has been for most of the second. Throughout the first millennium ad, much of the known world was ruled by monarchies. ![]()
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