Ulrike Ludwig/Quentin Verreycken (Ed.): The Power to Pardon in Medieval and Early Modern Christian Europe

Scholarship on ancient Greek law has diversified in recent years. Conceptual challenges from the division between History of Law and Ancient History have subsided. Also, as the conversation unfolds, new sources hailing from various corners of the Greek world enrich the picture; they complement the prominence previous research has assigned to Athens and Crete as unique places of study. The current volume fully embraces these developments. Fleshing out the intersection between the unity of Greek law on the one hand and its manifestation in countless cities on the other, each one with striking idiosyncrasy in legal administration and practice, it explores new perspectives on the interplay between local law and legal coherence in ancient Greece from Archaic to Hellenistic times.

About the Authors

Ulrike Ludwig is a university professor of early modern history at the University of Münster and co-director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘legal Unity and Pluralism’; Quentin Verreycken is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Louvain.

Bibliographic Data

Ulrike Ludwig/Quentin Verreycken (Ed.): The Power to Pardon in Medieval and Early Modern Christian Europe, 2025, 295 Seiten, gebunden (Einheit & Vielfalt im Recht / Legal Unity & Pluralism, Bd. 6), Böhlau, Printed Volume: ISBN: 978-3-412-53385-4, Preis 50,00 EUR; E-Book: ISBN: 978-3-412-53386-1, Open-Access.

You can find further information on the Böhlau Verlag website.