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Royal Police Ordinances in Early Modern Sweden
The Emergence of Voluntaristic Understanding of Law
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
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Royal Police Ordinances in Early Modern Sweden offers a comprehensive account of the legal regulation of 16th- and 17th-century Swedish society. In comparison to present-day usage, during the early modern period the term ‘police’ had a broader meaning. It referred to ‘good societal order’ covering a variety of areas of societal life such as public finances, commerce, professions, infrastructure, public health and poor relief, public morality, public security, and so on.
Through an analysis of a large body of ordinances Toomas Kotkas claims that in 17th-century Sweden a new, voluntaristic understanding of law emerged. Royal police ordinances were no longer perceived merely as a means of enforcing older medieval law but instead as an instrument of directing society towards aspired-to goals.
Through an analysis of a large body of ordinances Toomas Kotkas claims that in 17th-century Sweden a new, voluntaristic understanding of law emerged. Royal police ordinances were no longer perceived merely as a means of enforcing older medieval law but instead as an instrument of directing society towards aspired-to goals.
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Toomas Kotkas, LL.D. (2004), is Professor of Jurisprudence and Social Law at the University of Eastern Finland. His work comprises monographs and articles on a variety of topics in the fields of legal history, legal philosophy and social law.
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eBook published on:
October 2, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9789004258952
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Main content:
234
eBook ISBN:
9789004258952
Keywords for this book
police; legal; history; voluntoristic understanding; law; early modern; sweden
Audience(s) for this book
Anyone interested in law and the logic of legal regulation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Sweden and Europe against the wider background of early modern police, i.e., good societal order.
