1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996211612903316

Autore

Coornhert D. V (Dirk Volkertszoon), <1522-1590.>

Titolo

Synod on the freedom of conscience [[electronic resource] ] : a thorough examination during the gathering held in the year 1582 in the City of Freetown / / D.V. Coornhert ; transl. ed., annot. by Gerrit Voogt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-282-06798-2

9786612067983

90-485-0799-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Collana

Bibliotheca dissidentium Neerlandicorum

Amsterdamse Gouden Eeuw reeks, , 1875-9599

Altri autori (Persone)

VoogtGerrit

Disciplina

323.442492

Soggetti

Freedom of religion - Netherlands - History - 16th century

Netherlands History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

The first complete English translation of Dirck Coornhert's 1630 Synod on the Freedom of Conscience, one of the most elaborate and powerful pleas for religious tolerance published in early modern Europe



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960291903321

Autore

Wortman Richard

Titolo

The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, IL, : University of Chicago Press, 2011

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Disciplina

347.47

347/.47

Soggetti

Courts -- Russia -- History

Justice, Administration of -- Russia -- History

Lawyers --Russia

Courts - History - Soviet Union

Lawyers - History - Soviet Union

Justice, Administration of - Soviet Union

Law - Non-U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Law - Africa, Asia, Pacific & Antarctica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 323-336.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; I. Autocracy and the Law; 1. Absolutism and Justice in Eighteenth-Century Russia; 2. Bureaucratization, Specialization, and Education; 3. The Composition of the Russian Legal Administration in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century; II. The Men; Introduction: The Noble Legal Official; 4. Russia's First Minister of Justice; 5. The Quiet Shelter; 6. Count Dmitrii Nikolaevich Bludov; 7. Count Victor Nikitich Panin; 8. The Emergence of a Legal Ethos; III. Reform; Introduction: The Old Judiciary; 9. The Aspiration to Legality

10. Epilogue and ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Until the nineteenth century, the Russian legal system was subject to an administrative hierarchy headed by the tsar, and the courts were expected to enforce, not interpret the law. Richard S. Wortman here traces the first professional class of legal experts who emerged during



the reign of Nicholas I (1826 - 56) and who began to view the law as a uniquely modern and independent source of authority. Discussing how new legal institutions fit into the traditional system of tsarist rule, Wortman analyzes how conflict arose from the same intellectual processes that produced legal reform. He ultimat