TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pihlajamäki,Heikki
TI  - Conquest and the law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710): a case of legal pluralism in early modern Europe 
T2  - The northern world
SN  - 9789004331532
AV  - KJC530 
U1  - 349.479809/032 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Boston
KW  - Law
KW  - Livonia
KW  - History
KW  - Latvia
KW  - Sweden
KW  - Hisory
KW  - Estonia
KW  - Legal polycentricity
KW  - Europe, Northern
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Outset: The Livonian and Swedish Legal Orders at the Time of the Swedish Conquest -- The Reorganisation of the Livonian Judiciary under the Swedish Rule -- The Procedure in the Livonian Courts of the Swedish Era -- Transplanting Swedish Law? The Legal Sources at the Livonian Courts -- Conclusions -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710) , Heikki Pihlajamäki offers an exciting account of the law and judiciary in seventeenth-century Livonia. Immediately after Sweden conquered the province in the 1620s, a reorganization of the Livonian judiciary began. Its legal order became largely modelled after Swedish law, which differed in important ways from its Livonian counterpart. While Livonian legal tradition was firmly anchored in the European ius commune , the conquerors’ law was, by nature, not founded in legal learning. The volume convincingly demonstrates how the differences in legal cultures decisively affected the way Livonian judicial and procedural systems were shaped. Based on archival sources, the study presents an important contribution to the comparative legal history of the early modern period
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004331532
ER  -