Max Deardorff

Bio: Max Deardorff is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monarchy & Empire. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 84 citations.

Republics, their Customs, and the Law of the King: Convivencia and Self-Determination in the Crown of Castile and its American Territories, 1400–1700

Abstract: This article examines a conflict over indigenous inheritance law in one small corner of the 16th-century Spanish Empire – the northern Andes – in order to open a window onto legal traditions in the wider Hispanic world. A specific emphasis is devoted to the mechanisms that placed custom (unwritten norms) at the center of early modern Spanish legal theory, making the Spanish monarchy one especially adapted to incorporating diverse social elements. By focusing on the late-medieval / early modern conception of »republics« – cultural communities oriented toward cohesive action preserving their common good – as the basic unit of study, and on custom as the basic guarantor of their continuing self-determination, I suggest ways to think about the legacy of Iberian convivencia both within and outside of its traditional medieval frame.

The Ties That Bind: Intermarriage between Moriscos and Old Christians in Early Modern Spain, 1526–1614

Abstract: This article examines the question of intermarriage between Moriscos and Old Christians in early modern Spain, largely through the analysis of more than two dozen applications made by members of mixed couples who sought to return to their homes in Granada after the conclusion of the devastating War of the Alpujarras (1568–1570) It argues that royal judges tasked with deciding the fate of the applications had already begun to develop the criteria that would govern the regulations on general expulsion (1609–1614) decades later and that these criteria were linked to specific considerations arising from the medieval legal history of Iberia

Law And Colonial Cultures Legal Regimes In World History 1400 1900

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