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Constitutional Moments
Founding Myths, Charters and Constitutions through History
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“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.
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.
Xavier Gil, Ph.D. (1989), University of Barcelona, is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Barcelona. He has published numerous works on Iberian and European political thought and culture, including
La fábrica de la Monarquía. Traza y conservación de la Monarquía de España de los Reyes Católicos y los Austrias (Real Academia de la Historia, 2016).
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Xavier Gil
Part 1
Ancient and Medieval Times
1 The Critic of the Family ( oikos) at the Foundations of Plato’s Political Doctrine Myth and Reality
Luc Brisson
2 The Influence of Roman Law on Medieval Bulgarian Legislation Sources and Developments of the Main Constitutional Issues
Petar Cholakov
Part 2
Renaissance and Early Modern Era
Section 1
Myths and Politics
3 Biscay in the Spanish Monarchy Myth, History, and Law in the Making of Its Constitutional Regime (14th to 17th Centuries)
Jon Arrieta
4 The Myth of Sobrarbe between Old Europe and the New World A Reassessment
Angela De Benedictis
5 Law, Wisdom, and Politics in Making Süleyman “The Lawgiver”
Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz
Section 2
Governance and Change
6 After Revolts Moments for Constitutional Refashioning in Early Modern Europe
Xavier Gil
7 Accommodatio in the Jesuit Constitutions
Jaska Kainulainen
8 The Monarchical Moment Constitutionalism, Lutheran Political Thought, and the Rise of Danish Absolutism
Brian Kjær Olesen
9 A Model Republican Constitution? Guicciardini vs. Machiavelli on the Roman Example
Nikola Regent
10 The Union of Utrecht An Unfinished Constitutional Definition between Federalism and Particularism in the Low Countries (1579–1621)
Alberto Mariano Rodríguez Martínez
Part 3
The Enlightenment
11 Ancient Constitutionalism in the Age of Enlightenment The Case of Denmark-Norway
Håkon Evju
12 Rousseau and Poland Pragmatic Rebirth Rather than Idealistic Reforms?
Mark J. Hill
13 The Lawgiver in Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Political Thought Charting Mediterranean Liberalism
Adriana Luna-Fabritius
14 From Masterpiece of Modern Legislation to an Aristocratic Oligarchy Contemporary European Appraisals of the Swedish Constitution of the Age of Liberty (1719–1772)
Ere Nokkala
Part 4
The Nineteenth Century
15 “Dark Spots of Our History” Martínez Marina and Foundational Myths in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Pablo Fernández Albaladejo
16 The Metamorphoses of a Historical Constitution Longue durée Developments in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Constitutional and Political Thought
Ferenc Hörcher and Thomas Lorman
17 Constitutional Imagination and “Catholic” Political Anthropology The Grammar of the Mixed Constitution in the Mid-19th Century Crisis of Spanish Liberalism
Pablo Sánchez León
Part 5
The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
18 The Weimar Constitutional Moment Constitutionalism, Theoretical Debate and Political Conflict
Ersin Yildiz
19 The Portuguese Estado Novo Constitutional Process as a Model for Transitioning to Authoritarianism in the Europe of the New Order
José Reis Santos
20 The Framing of a Liberal Democratic Constitution in Post-War Western Germany
Niall Bond
21 From 1989 to 2010 Founding Myths and Moments of the Liberal and the Illiberal Constitutional Revolutions in Hungary
Nóra Chronowski and András L. Pap
Part 6
Theoretical Issues
22 An Unbroken Continuity? Constitutional Crises and Historical Imagination
Javier Fernández-Sebastián
23 The Dirty Secret of New Beginnings Founding a Democracy between Nothing and Narration
Mareike Gebhardt
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Xavier Gil
Part 1
Ancient and Medieval Times
1 The Critic of the Family ( oikos) at the Foundations of Plato’s Political Doctrine Myth and Reality
Luc Brisson
2 The Influence of Roman Law on Medieval Bulgarian Legislation Sources and Developments of the Main Constitutional Issues
Petar Cholakov
Part 2
Renaissance and Early Modern Era
Myths and Politics
3 Biscay in the Spanish Monarchy Myth, History, and Law in the Making of Its Constitutional Regime (14th to 17th Centuries)
Jon Arrieta
4 The Myth of Sobrarbe between Old Europe and the New World A Reassessment
Angela De Benedictis
5 Law, Wisdom, and Politics in Making Süleyman “The Lawgiver”
Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz
Section 2
Governance and Change
6 After Revolts Moments for Constitutional Refashioning in Early Modern Europe
Xavier Gil
7 Accommodatio in the Jesuit Constitutions
Jaska Kainulainen
8 The Monarchical Moment Constitutionalism, Lutheran Political Thought, and the Rise of Danish Absolutism
Brian Kjær Olesen
9 A Model Republican Constitution? Guicciardini vs. Machiavelli on the Roman Example
Nikola Regent
10 The Union of Utrecht An Unfinished Constitutional Definition between Federalism and Particularism in the Low Countries (1579–1621)
Alberto Mariano Rodríguez Martínez
Part 3
The Enlightenment
11 Ancient Constitutionalism in the Age of Enlightenment The Case of Denmark-Norway
Håkon Evju
12 Rousseau and Poland Pragmatic Rebirth Rather than Idealistic Reforms?
Mark J. Hill
13 The Lawgiver in Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Political Thought Charting Mediterranean Liberalism
Adriana Luna-Fabritius
14 From Masterpiece of Modern Legislation to an Aristocratic Oligarchy Contemporary European Appraisals of the Swedish Constitution of the Age of Liberty (1719–1772)
Ere Nokkala
Part 4
The Nineteenth Century
15 “Dark Spots of Our History” Martínez Marina and Foundational Myths in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Pablo Fernández Albaladejo
16 The Metamorphoses of a Historical Constitution Longue durée Developments in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Constitutional and Political Thought
Ferenc Hörcher and Thomas Lorman
17 Constitutional Imagination and “Catholic” Political Anthropology The Grammar of the Mixed Constitution in the Mid-19th Century Crisis of Spanish Liberalism
Pablo Sánchez León
Part 5
The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
18 The Weimar Constitutional Moment Constitutionalism, Theoretical Debate and Political Conflict
Ersin Yildiz
19 The Portuguese Estado Novo Constitutional Process as a Model for Transitioning to Authoritarianism in the Europe of the New Order
José Reis Santos
20 The Framing of a Liberal Democratic Constitution in Post-War Western Germany
Niall Bond
21 From 1989 to 2010 Founding Myths and Moments of the Liberal and the Illiberal Constitutional Revolutions in Hungary
Nóra Chronowski and András L. Pap
Part 6
Theoretical Issues
22 An Unbroken Continuity? Constitutional Crises and Historical Imagination
Javier Fernández-Sebastián
23 The Dirty Secret of New Beginnings Founding a Democracy between Nothing and Narration
Mareike Gebhardt
Index
This book will appeal to graduate and post-graduate students, researchers, academic libraries, scholars and more general readers interested in the history of political and constitutional thought, legal history, comparative politics, and political science.