BOOK: Michael STOLLEIS, „recht erzählen“. Regionale Studien 1650–1850 (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2018), pp. 232, ISBN 978-3-465-04560-1

(Source: Klostermann)

ABOUT THE BOOK

Anyone engaged in "narrating the law" moves in the border area between scientific work and fictional narration. It is a balancing act not to falsify the expression of historical actors handed down in sources and to convey them as legal history(s) to one's own contemporaries. In this volume, Michael Stolleis chooses the path of vivid individual cases that combine to form a Palatine panorama. The arc of the regional studies set on the Rhine and Neckar stretches from early modern times to the 19th century. We encounter Palatine wedding couples, Frankfurt lawyers, silk farmers, the fates of migrants and the way the authorities dealt with beggars in the Electoral Palatinate. The tense relationship between Bavaria and the Palatinate came to a head in the Palatinate-Baden uprising (1849). The fact that a Neustadt ropemaker named Georg Stolleis appears among the revolters is only one surprising detail of these rich narratives of the law.

The volume has just been published in the book series "Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte" of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.

More information on the website of the MPIeR or with the publisher.

The table of contents is available in PDF format here.