Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750

在欧洲传播法律，1500 年至 1750 年

• 批准号: EP/Y036166/1
• 负责人: Arthur Der Weduwen
• 金额: $ 155.11万
• 依托单位: University of St Andrews
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY036166%2F1
• 关键词: Communicating; Law; Europe; 1500; 1750

The rule of law is a universal principle of political societies. We expect government to enact good laws, and we have the responsibility to respect and observe those laws. Underpinning this relationship between state and citizen is the crucial recognition that the law must be known before it can be observed. The process by which this information is disseminated is at the heart of this proposed project, which investigates how law was communicated to citizens and subjects by governments in early modern Europe (1500-1750). It offers an original comparative study of the publication and circulation of municipal, regional and national law. It encompasses oral communication, through ceremonial proclamations and the employment of criers, as well as the affixing, distribution and sale of law texts, in manuscript and printed form.It is the central contention of this project that one cannot study early modern politics and law making without considering who was informed of law, and in what manner. Based on extensive archival research, this project will seek to establish for the first time to what extent the increasing body of law that was issued in early modern Europe was made publicly available, and in what forms. This will add a new and much-needed perspective to the study of European politics in a critical era of state formation, framing the communication of law as an essential stabilising factor in an era of highly participatory but undemocratic politics. This project will offer multiple comparative frameworks through which the communication of law will be studied, including Protestant and Catholic states, urban and rural areas, and empires, national kingdoms and city-states. With the aid of such a comparative lens, it will be an overarching aim of this project to analyse how the public dissemination of law shaped early modern civic society and influenced political participation and accountability.

法治是政治社会的普遍原则。我们期望政府制定良好的法律，我们有责任尊重和遵守这些法律。支撑国家与公民之间这种关系的关键是认识到，必须先了解法律，然后才能遵守法律。传播这些信息的过程是这个拟议项目的核心，该项目研究了现代早期欧洲（1500-1750）政府如何向公民和臣民传达法律。它对市、地区和国家法律的出版和流通提供了原创性的比较研究。它包括口头交流，通过仪式公告和使用宣讲者，以及以手稿和印刷形式粘贴、分发和销售法律文本。该项目的中心论点是，如果不考虑谁以何种方式了解法律，就无法研究早期现代政治和法律制定。基于广泛的档案研究，该项目将首次确定近代早期欧洲颁布的不断增加的法律体系在多大程度上以及以何种形式公开。这将为国家形成的关键时代的欧洲政治研究增加一个新的、急需的视角，将法律传播视为高度参与但不民主政治时代的重要稳定因素。该项目将提供多个比较框架来研究法律传播，包括新教和天主教国家、城市和农村地区、帝国、民族王国和城邦。借助这种比较视角，该项目的总体目标是分析法律的公开传播如何塑造早期现代公民社会并影响政治参与和问责制。