Comparative History

Islamic sources indicate that Muslims often sought to distance themselves from the practices of Jews (as well as Christians and Zoroastrians). One method used to differentiate Islam from other religions was mukhālafa, doing the opposite of those around you. A good example of this principle at work is the laws of menstruation (ḥayḍ). In this case, Muslims not only sought to differentiate themselves from Jews, but also to make Islamic practices more lenient (rukhṣa) than those of Judaism.

""Juvenile Delinquency and the Limits of Western Influence, 1850-2000, brings together a wide range of case studies from across the globe, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, to explore the complex ways in which historical understandings of childhood and juvenile delinquency have been constructed in a global context. The book highlights the continued entanglement of historical descriptions of the development of juvenile justice systems in other parts of the world with narratives of Western colonialism and the persistence of notions of a cultural divide between East and West. It also stresses the need to combine theoretical insights from traditional comparative history with new global history approaches. In doing so, the case studies examined in the volume reveal the significant limitations to the influence of Western ideas about juvenile delinquency in other parts of the world as well as the important degree to which Western understandings of delinquency were also constructed in a transnational context.
Includes chapters by Stephanie Olsen, Amrit Dev Kaur Khalsa, Howard Lupovitch, Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Sarah Bornhorst, Barak Kushner, Gleb Tsipursky, Nina Mackert, Kate Bradley and Nina Cicek."""

These essays take advantage of a new, exciting trend towards interdisciplinary research on the Charlemagne legend. Written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, these essays focus on the multifaceted ways the Charlemagne legend functioned in the Middle Ages and how central the shared (if nonetheless fictional) memory of the great Frankish ruler was to the medieval West. A gateway to new research on memory, crusading, apocalyptic expectation, Carolingian historiography, and medieval kingship, the contributors demonstrate the fuzzy line separating “fact” and “fiction” in the Middle Ages.

Extrait de compte rendu : « [il s’agissait d’]étudier le sujet dans une perspective européenne et pluridisciplinaire. Une trentaine de communications (...) couvrent largement nos régions (...) mais aussi le sud et l’est de l’Europe (...). Les actes du colloque ‘Faire bans, edictz et statuz’ s’imposent comme l’instrument de référence sur la législation communale, ses sources et ses rapports avec les actes de l’autorité princière. C’est l’outil de travail indispensable à l’historien comme au juriste. A lire absolument. » (W. Steurs, dans Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire, tome 84, 2006, fasc. 4, p. 1260-1262).

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