Mediterranean Origin of European Legal Culture 1300-MED_ORIG-KPP
Europe represents an unprecedented cultural formation and has born a unique heritage. It’s “cultural individuality” does not mean that it was created in a vacuum and had no predecessors to follow. We may assume that those were cultural achievements of civilizations of the Ancient Middle East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel) as well as Greek poleis and the Roman Empire which contributed profoundly to the formation of our continent. The deeds of the ancients weren’t available for modern generations directly. We wouldn’t have gained access to this wisdom without work of the hundreds who interpreted and handed it over to us. Thereby individual efforts of those “intermediaries” became an element of the ancient heritage. That’s why we yield not form separate periods but from the very broad amalgamation of the bygone epochs. What we owe to the ancients refers especially to the matters of law and politics as well as philosophy of these two. It is beyond doubt that the present is not a simple copy of the past. Yet, surprisingly, large number of today’s legal institutions are deeply rooted in “the ancient soil” from which European legal tradition grew up. That’s why we can notice and trace vivid linkage between contemporary issues and the spirit of ancient accomplishments.
Main issues to be lectured on:
- base notions and branch terminology: sociological facts, culture, civilization, community, society, nation, state, law and its varieties, law and idea of law (3 h);
- the first politically organized communities: Mesopotamian model of theocratic rulership and doctrinal origins of socially advanced regulatory mechanism (1 h);
- "theocracy with a social contract": ancient Jewish covenant and its legal aspects (1 h);
- the dawn of the "axis epoch": dualism of "worldly" and "transcend" (1 h);
- the birth of an open society: Greek culture, its axioms and hierarchy values (4 h);
- utility, conservatism and law: the Romans (4 h);
- the Emperor and the God: early Christianity and law (1 h);
- between Rome and Orient: legal culture of Byzantium (1 h);
- late Ancient or early Medieval? The beginning and evolution of barbarian Europe (1 h);
- the discovery of the past: the Latin Middle Ages (1 h);
- old bricks - new edifices: the Renaissance (1 h);
- legal values of the past and the idea of European unity (1 h).
Całkowity nakład pracy studenta
Efekty uczenia się - wiedza
Efekty uczenia się - umiejętności
Efekty uczenia się - kompetencje społeczne
Metody dydaktyczne
Metody dydaktyczne podające
- wykład informacyjny (konwencjonalny)
- wykład problemowy
Metody dydaktyczne poszukujące
- klasyczna metoda problemowa
Rodzaj przedmiotu
Wymagania wstępne
Kryteria oceniania
Two premises:
- the main: mark gained from examination (oral or written); student is asked three questions, each of answers is assessed according to the university scale (from 2,0 to 5,0); the final mark is a mean extracted from the three – W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, W6, U1, U2;
- the subsidiary (may raise the final examination mark): active participation during the lecture – K1, K2.
Praktyki zawodowe
No practice
Literatura
F. Wieacker E. Bodenheimer, Foundations of European Legal Culture, „The American Journal of Comparative Law” 38.1/1990, pp. 1-29;
[Chosen pages from:]
R. Lesaffer, European Legal History: A Cultural and Political Perspective
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009;
Myth, Ritual, and Kingship: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Kingship in the Ancient Near East and in Israel, ed. by S.H. Hooke, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1960;
E. Schweid, The Philosophy of the Bible as Foundation of Jewish Culture. Philosophy of Biblical law, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2008;
C. Wilcke, Early Ancient Near Eastern Law. A History of its Beginnings, Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, IN 2007;
M.H. Hansen, Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State, Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York 2006;
Ch. Meier, A Culture of Freedom: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011;
M. Ostwald, From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens, University of California Press, Berkeley 1986;
Ch.G. Starr, Individual and Community: The Rise of the Polis, 800-500 B.C., Oxford University Press USA, New York 1986;
J.A. S. Evans, The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power, Routledge, London-New York 2000;
Roman Law and European Legal Culture, ed. by: A. Dębiński, M. Jońca, The John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin 2008;
Roman Law as Formative of Modern Legal Systems: Studies in Honour of Wiesław Litewski, ed. by J. Sondel, J. Reszczyński, P. Ściślicki, Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków 2003;
A. Watson, The Spirit of Roman Law, The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA-London 1995;
R. Zimmermann, Roman law, contemporary law, European law. The Civilian Tradition Today, Oxford University Press, Oxford- New York 2001;
Ch.M. Radding, A. Ciaralli, The Corpus iuris civilis in the Middle Ages: Manuscripts and Transmission from the Sixth Century to the Juristic Revival, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2007.
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