Présentation de l’éditeur
“Constitution” is a rich term in Western political culture, encompassing political and juridical doctrine as well as government practices through the ages. This volume examines “constitutional moments” in history, those occasions or episodes when significant steps were taken in the definition or redefinition of polities. Their actors were writers or politicians, rulers or ruled, who found inspiration in a distant past or instead looked towards a future to be drawn anew. This book sheds light on such moments from Ancient Greece to the present day, mostly in Europe but also in the Ottoman world and the Americas, thereby uncovering a revealing variety of constitutional thinking and action throughout history.
Contributors are: Jon Arrieta, Niall Bond, Luc Brisson, Peter Cholakov, Nora Chonowski, Angela De Benedictis, F. Sinem Eryilmaz, Hakon Evju, Pablo Fernández Albaladejo, Javier Fernández Sebastián, Merieke Gebhardt, Xavier Gil, Mark J. Hill, Ferenc Hörcher, Jaska Kainulainen, Thomas Lorman, Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Ere Nokkala, Brian Kjaer Olesen, András Pap, Nikola Regent, Alberto Mariano Rodríguez Martínez, Pablo Sánchez León, José Reis Santos, and Ersin Yildiz.
Sommaire
Introduction
Author: Xavier Gil
Part 1 Ancient and Medieval Times
Chapter 1 The Critic of the Family (oikos) at the Foundations of Plato’s Political Doctrine. Myth and Reality
Author: Luc Brisson
Chapter 2 The Influence of Roman Law on Medieval Bulgarian Legislation. Sources and Developments of the Main Constitutional Issues
Author: Petar Cholakov
Part 2 Renaissance and Early Modern Era
Section 1 Myths and Politics
Chapter 3 Biscay in the Spanish Monarchy. Myth, History, and Law in the Making of Its Constitutional Regime (14th to 17th Centuries)
Author: Jon Arrieta
Chapter 4 The Myth of Sobrarbe between Old Europe and the New World. A Reassessment
Author: Angela De Benedictis
Chapter 5 Law, Wisdom, and Politics in Making Süleyman “The Lawgiver”
Author: Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz
Section 2 Governance and Change
Chapter 6 After Revolts. Moments for Constitutional Refashioning in Early Modern Europe
Author: Xavier Gil
Chapter 7 Accommodatio in the Jesuit Constitutions
Author: Jaska Kainulainen
Chapter 8 The Monarchical Moment. Constitutionalism, Lutheran Political Thought, and the Rise of Danish Absolutism
Author: Brian Kjær Olesen
Chapter 9 A Model Republican Constitution? Guicciardini vs. Machiavelli on the Roman Example
Author: Nikola Regent
Chapter 10 The Union of Utrecht. An Unfinished Constitutional Definition between Federalism and Particularism in the Low Countries (1579–1621)
Author: Alberto Mariano Rodríguez Martínez
Part 3 The Enlightenment
Chapter 11 Ancient Constitutionalism in the Age of Enlightenment. The Case of Denmark-Norway
Author: Håkon Evju
Chapter 12 Rousseau and Poland. Pragmatic Rebirth Rather than Idealistic Reforms?
Author: Mark J. Hill
Chapter 13 The Lawgiver in Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Political Thought. Charting Mediterranean Liberalism
Author: Adriana Luna-Fabritius
Chapter 14 From Masterpiece of Modern Legislation to an Aristocratic Oligarchy. Contemporary European Appraisals of the Swedish Constitution of the Age of Liberty (1719–1772)
Author: Ere Nokkala
Part 4 The Nineteenth Century
Chapter 15 “Dark Spots of Our History”. Martínez Marina and Foundational Myths in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Author: Pablo Fernández Albaladejo
Chapter 16 The Metamorphoses of a Historical Constitution. Longue durée Developments in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Constitutional and Political Thought
Authors: Ferenc Hörcher and Thomas Lorman
Chapter 17 Constitutional Imagination and “Catholic” Political Anthropology. The Grammar of the Mixed Constitution in the Mid-19th Century Crisis of Spanish Liberalism
Author: Pablo Sánchez León
Part 5 The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Chapter 18 The Weimar Constitutional Moment. Constitutionalism, Theoretical Debate and Political Conflict
Author: Ersin Yildiz
Chapter 19 The Portuguese Estado Novo Constitutional Process as a Model for Transitioning to Authoritarianism in the Europe of the New Order
Author: José Reis Santos
Chapter 20 The Framing of a Liberal Democratic Constitution in Post-War Western Germany
Author: Niall Bond
Chapter 21 From 1989 to 2010. Founding Myths and Moments of the Liberal and the Illiberal Constitutional Revolutions in Hungary
Authors: Nóra Chronowski and András L. Pap
Part 6 Theoretical Issues
Chapter 22 An Unbroken Continuity? Constitutional Crises and Historical Imagination
Author: Javier Fernández-Sebastián
Chapter 23 The Dirty Secret of New Beginnings. Founding a Democracy between Nothing and Narration
Author: Mareike Gebhardt
