Legal Norms and Political Action in Multi-Ethnic Societies. Cohesion in Multi-Ethnic Societies in Europe from c. 1000 to the Present, III

Hardback, 336 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:3 b/w, 13 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503602301. Summary The three-volume project Cohesion in Multi-Ethnic Societies in Europe from c.1000 to the Present explores and seeks to find solutions to a crucial problem facing contemporary Europe: in what circumstances can different ethnic groups co-operate for the common good? They apparently did so in the past, combining to form political societies, medieval and early modern duchies, kingdoms, and empires. But did they maintain their ethnic traditions in this process? Did they pass on elements of their cultural memory when they were not in a dominant position in a given polity? The first volume in the project explored ethnic cohesion as evidenced by narratives about the past, while volume two analysed communal events and activities. This third volume focuses on how relations between ethnic groups were influenced by political activities and related legal norms. Both cooperation and conflict between ethnic communities find their expression in political activities, although they usually have a significant cultural and economic background as well. This book examines the causes of political cooperation between ethnic groups, despite the risk of conflict, and the methods of stabilizing this cooperation through the enactment of law. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Legal Norms and Political actions in Multi-ethnic Societies ?PRZEMYS?AW WISZEWSKI Ethnic Differences and Political Activities within Silesian Societies (Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries)?PRZEMYS?AW WISZEWSKI Royal and Ducal Legislation for the Ethnic Communities in Selected Cities of the Polish Territories (Twelfth - First Half of the Sixteenth Century) ?GRZEGORZ MY?LIWSKI The Integration and Separation of the Communities of Ruthenia after Its Incorporation into the Kingdom of Poland ?ANDRZEJ PLESZCZY?SKI The (Slow) Building of Mechanisms of Cooperation Between the Transylvanian Estates (From the Second Half of the Fourteenth to Mid-fifteenth Century)?COSMIN POPA-GORJANU The So-Called Cuman Law in the Thirteenth century in Hungary ?DANIEL BAGI Economic Competition between Christian Burghers and Jews: The Modelling of Jewish Economic Activity Through the Restrictions on Jewish Merchants and Craftspeople in the Towns of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania?JURGITA VERBICKIEN? An Attempt to?Rethink?the Karaites' Traditional Views on their (Im)migration to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Middle Ages ?DOVIL? TROSKOVAIT? The Magdeburg Law and Its Effect on the Development of Jews' legal Status in the Towns of Grand Duchy of Lithuania: The Experience of the Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries ?AIVARAS PO?KA Aspects of Relations between Russians and Other Ethnic/ Religious Groups in the Mirror of the Muscovite Law Code of 1649?ENDRE SASHALMI Royal Law and Ethnic Minorities in Portugal (Twelfth - Sixteenth Centuries): A Wide Strategy for Shaping Social Diversity ?PAULA PINTO-COSTA, JOANA LENCART Culture and Faith as the Main Bonding Factors for a Multi-ethnic Society? The Manipulation of History in Early Modern Sardinia (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)?LUCIANO GALLINARI Discrimination and Ethnic-Religious Segregation in Legal Texts in Medieval Southern Catalonia ?MARIA BONET Social Cohesion and Jewish Otherness in Late Medieval Catalonia ? FLOCEL SABBATE CURUL The impact of U.S. Immigration Laws on the Lives of the Polish Ethnic Group in the United States ?JOANNA WOJDON Co-operation or Conflict within Medieval and Early Modern Multi-ethnic Political Communities (Eastern and Southern Europe)? False Dilemma. Concluding remarks ?PRZEMYS?AW WISZEWSKI Index