TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kirov, Jani
T1  - Prolegomena zu einer Rechtsgeschichte Südosteuropas
T2  - Rechtsgeschichte = Legal History
N2  - This article tries to outline the history of law in South Eastern Europe – a subject that currently is being researched in an international project at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. It reflects on some historical aspects and theoretical issues which may help to identify the analytical approach and interest in that case. The history of law in Southeast Europe bears the hallmarks of the general history of the region. National politics has often dominated and still dominates historical thinking. On the other hand, legal history has been part of the traditional discourse of modernization. Since the 19th century the Ottoman Empire and its successor states looked upon Western Europe as the universal model of social and political organization which they have made efforts to adopt. The article tries to overcome the implications of both nationalism and modernization starting from a general idea of modernity. It also aims at integrating the Ottoman history in the study of legal history of the post-Ottoman states. Finally, it discusses the problem of legal transfer which played a crucial role in the formation of national legal systems in the successor states.
N2  - Die Geschichte Südosteuropas scheint eine Geschichte des Anderen zu sein: sei es, weil sie das Bild eines Anderen ist oder sei es, weil sie es gerade nicht ist. Dementsprechend gilt es, entweder sie als Imagination zu dekonstruieren oder ihre Verschiedenheit nachzuweisen. Sie lebt offensichtlich zwischen Konstruktion und Negation, Mythologie und Aufklärung, so dass es zuweilen schwer fallen mag, Identitätsmerkmale positiv zu definieren. ...
Y1  - 2011
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/52761
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-527614
SN  - 2195-9617
SN  - 1619-4993
N1  - Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons cc-by-nc-nd 3.0
VL  - 18
SP  - 140
EP  - 161
PB  - Klostermann
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -