Fischer, Carsten (2016). The Reception of Magna Carta in Early Modern Germany, c. 1650-1800. J. Leg. Hist., 37 (3). S. 249 - 269. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1744-0564
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The article examines how far the reinvigoration of Magna Carta in seventeenth-century British legal thought was received into German discourses between c. 1650 and 1800. An analysis of early modern German works on feudal law and ius publicum, of historical writings as well as of political literature reveals a formal, but no substantive reception: early modern German scholarship betrays no signs of an effort to discuss or describe the actual contents, provisions and meaning of Magna Carta. Rather, from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, the Great Charter enters political debate as a trope for a constitutional guarantee of unnamed personal liberties.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-254367 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/01440365.2016.1235771 | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | J. Leg. Hist. | ||||||||
Volume: | 37 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | S. 249 - 269 | ||||||||
Date: | 2016 | ||||||||
Publisher: | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | ABINGDON | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1744-0564 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/25436 |
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