Constitutional Moments

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 IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionXavier GilPart 1Ancient and Medieval Times1 The Critic of the Family (oikos) at the Foundations of Plato’s Political Doctrine Myth and RealityLuc Brisson2 The Influence of Roman Law on Medieval Bulgarian Legislation Sources and Developments of the Main Constitutional IssuesPetar CholakovPart 2Renaissance and Early Modern EraSection 1Myths and Politics3 Biscay in the Spanish Monarchy Myth, History, and Law in the Making of Its Constitutional Regime (14th to 17th Centuries)Jon Arrieta4 The Myth of Sobrarbe between Old Europe and the New World A ReassessmentAngela De Benedictis5 Law, Wisdom, and Politics in Making Süleyman “The Lawgiver”Fatma Sinem EryılmazSection 2Governance and Change6 After Revolts Moments for Constitutional Refashioning in Early Modern EuropeXavier Gil7 Accommodatio in the Jesuit ConstitutionsJaska Kainulainen8 The Monarchical Moment Constitutionalism, Lutheran Political Thought, and the Rise of Danish AbsolutismBrian Kjær Olesen9 A Model Republican Constitution? Guicciardini vs. Machiavelli on the Roman ExampleNikola Regent10 The Union of Utrecht An Unfinished Constitutional Definition between Federalism and Particularism in the Low Countries (1579–1621)Alberto Mariano Rodríguez MartínezPart 3The Enlightenment11 Ancient Constitutionalism in the Age of Enlightenment The Case of Denmark-NorwayHåkon Evju12 Rousseau and Poland Pragmatic Rebirth Rather than Idealistic Reforms?Mark J. Hill13 The Lawgiver in Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Political Thought Charting Mediterranean LiberalismAdriana Luna-Fabritius14 From Masterpiece of Modern Legislation to an Aristocratic Oligarchy Contemporary European Appraisals of the Swedish Constitution of the Age of Liberty (1719–1772)Ere NokkalaPart 4The Nineteenth Century15 “Dark Spots of Our History” Martínez Marina and Foundational Myths in Eighteenth-Century SpainPablo Fernández Albaladejo16 The Metamorphoses of a Historical Constitution Longue durée Developments in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Constitutional and Political ThoughtFerenc Hörcher and Thomas Lorman17 Constitutional Imagination and “Catholic” Political Anthropology The Grammar of the Mixed Constitution in the Mid-19th Century Crisis of Spanish LiberalismPablo Sánchez LeónPart 5The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries18 The Weimar Constitutional Moment Constitutionalism, Theoretical Debate and Political ConflictErsin Yildiz19 The Portuguese Estado Novo Constitutional Process as a Model for Transitioning to Authoritarianism in the Europe of the New OrderJosé Reis Santos20 The Framing of a Liberal Democratic Constitution in Post-War Western GermanyNiall Bond21 From 1989 to 2010 Founding Myths and Moments of the Liberal and the Illiberal Constitutional Revolutions in HungaryNóra Chronowski and András L. PapPart 6Theoretical Issues22 An Unbroken Continuity? Constitutional Crises and Historical ImaginationJavier Fernández-Sebastián23 The Dirty Secret of New Beginnings Founding a Democracy between Nothing and NarrationMareike GebhardtIndex