Papers by Airton Ribeiro
Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte: ZNR, 2024
In the past two decades, colonial legal history has experienced an expansion not seen before. Wit... more In the past two decades, colonial legal history has experienced an expansion not seen before. Without doubt, the growth of the subdiscipline owes a great deal to the simultaneous globalization of both law and history, not to speak of the increased interest in colonial and postcolonial studies. The review presents the main lines of colonial legal historiography for the past two decades, roughly from the year 2000 to the present. Geographically, the authors restrict the overview to the British, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch empires, and temporally, to the early modern period. To highlight the scholarly context in which legal historians work, the connections to neighbouring social sciences, such as anthropology, and social, cultural, and political history are also included in the review insofar as they maintain a connection to colonial studies. In addition, the review emphasises comparative perspectives on colonial empires. Following the traditional national framework of legal studies, scholarly works comparing the legal histories of colonial empires are still few. The overview shows, however, that the number of comparative studies on colonial legal history is increasing.
The Production of Knowledge of Normativity in the Age of the Printing Press, 2024
This chapter aims to map the circulation of Martín de Azpilcueta's Manual de Confessores in Brazi... more This chapter aims to map the circulation of Martín de Azpilcueta's Manual de Confessores in Brazil from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In order to undertake a general survey on the possession and circulation of the Manual in that period, a vast assortment of sources was examined. One of the earliest records of written culture produced in Brazil can be attributed to Jesuitical letters sent by Jesuit missionaries. In these epistolary documents, exchanged around the mid-sixteenth century, can be found probably the first evidence of the Manual in Brazilian soil. Confessional literature had particularly utility for the missions of evangelization in colonial spaces and to the proper performance of this sacrament among Christians. This explains the possession of the title by priests and by bishops, as post mortem inventories show. By the same token, its presence in conventual library collections was required, as some catalogues of Franciscan and Jesuitic libraries testify. Preliminary findings demonstrate that Azpilcueta's Manual indeed circulated in different regions of Portuguese America along the centuries, yet its presence in the shelves of institutional and private libraries was shared with other competing titles of the confessional literature. By the eighteenth century, the appearance of the title in the historic records decreases severely, while new confessional books replace it. In any case, the importance of Azpilcueta's Manual is attested for its persistence along three centuries assisting the regulation of colonial life in Brazil.
International Law Agendas - Brasil, 2022
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History - Zeitschrift des Max-Planck-Instituts für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie, 2021
The pluricontinental Portuguese judicial ad- ministration was characterized by intensive move- me... more The pluricontinental Portuguese judicial ad- ministration was characterized by intensive move- ment of personnel around and between its dominions, forming a global network of rotating judicial posts. Along with these individuals, their books circulated, too. The present study focuses on the lists of books of eleven magistrates ap- pointed to judicial posts in a range of locations throughout Portuguese America between 1799 and 1807. Censorship sources allow us to identify the books chosen by these itinerant magistrates as being indispensable for the exercise of their judicial function. In view of the cost of shipping, the books’ weight and, above all, the temporary char- acter of the functionaries’ posts, judges established travelling libraries, portable collections of essential professional books. Identifying the books selected by judges as the work tools for their overseas judicial activities provides a good idea of the legal literature available in the final years of the Portuguese Ancien Régime. Finally, this investigation sheds light on how – and what kind of – normative information circulated in Portugal’s colonies along with these agents of the Crown.
Silva Júnior, Airton Ribeiro da, 2018
This essay attempts to understand the profile of Brazilian textbooks on international law publish... more This essay attempts to understand the profile of Brazilian textbooks on international law published during the Brazilian Empire (1822-1889), in order to comprehend which doctrines and influences can be traceable in the Brazilian legal literature. In this sense, the article focused on the entanglements between Western and Brazilian knowledge, privileging the conception of moderation between cultures rather than unilateral imposition or reproduction - interpretations that eventually prevails on the study of diffusion of knowledge in legal history. The research revealed that all of the three textbooks that had been published during the Imperial political regime (1851, 1867, 1889) shared, in general, the same characteristics: all of them had been written by professors of the Faculty of Recife, they were all prepared to serve as textbooks to the discipline of international law, and the three books followed the Droit des Gens Moderne de l’Europe written by the German jurist Johann Ludwig Klüber. In fact, the very first book of international law published in Brazil, written by Pedro Autran da Matta Albuquerque, is an abridged translation of Klüber’s book. The history of the discipline and the bibliography of international law in nineteenth-century Brazil had been neglected; the present essay modestly attempts to fulfil this gap narrating the diffusion of international law from an extra-European standpoint.
The present essay attempts to understand the representations of the American indigenous peoples i... more The present essay attempts to understand the representations of the American indigenous peoples in the Francisco de Vitoria’s relecciones by using the theoretical tools from the history of concepts. In order to do this, the historically ascribed meanings of the two main concepts applied to the indigenous peoples had been reconstructed, which are barbarian and savage, both already existing by the time of America’s invasion. Then, taking into consideration these ethnocentric concepts, it is explored the thought of Francisco de Vitoria on international law.
Talks and news by Airton Ribeiro
Seminario Internacional Espacios, Representaciones, Agentes y Resistencias en el Mundo Moderno
28... more Seminario Internacional Espacios, Representaciones, Agentes y Resistencias en el Mundo Moderno
28 de noviembre de 2022
Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos
Federal University of Santa Catarina, 17th June, 2021
Federal University of Santa Catarina, 13th may 2021
Talks by Airton Ribeiro
Book Reviews by Airton Ribeiro
International Law Agendas Blog, 2022
Review book: ORFORD, Anne. International Law and the Politics of History. Cambridge; New York: Ca... more Review book: ORFORD, Anne. International Law and the Politics of History. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History - Zeitschrift des Max-Planck-Instituts für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie, 2021
REVIEWED BOOK: Mia Korpiola (ed.), Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies, Cham: Palgrave... more REVIEWED BOOK: Mia Korpiola (ed.), Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2019, 264 p., ISBN 978-3-319-96862-9
Conference Presentations by Airton Ribeiro
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
11.00 Welcoming words
Jaakko Husa, University of Helsinki
Vice-Dean of th... more Tuesday, March 22, 2022
11.00 Welcoming words
Jaakko Husa, University of Helsinki
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law
Professor of Law and Globalization
11.15 Project launch
Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki
Academy Professor
Professor of Comparative Legal History
11.30 Keynote speech
Global Legal History on the Ground: a Perspective from African
Archives
Mariana Dias Paes, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and
Legal Theory
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Legal History and Early Modern Dutch Colonial Empire:
Historiographical and Methodological Questions
Henri Hannula, University of Helsinki
14:30 Dealing with Colonial Complexity: the Relevance of
'Policey' Law to the Emergence of Modern Law
Nathaly Mancilla-Órdenes, University of Helsinki
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Keynote speech
Early Modern Ordinances Meet Digital Humanities: an Exploration
of the Use of Taxonomies and Automatic Metadating
Annemieke Romein, Huygens Institute for the History of the
Netherlands
16:30 Global Circulation of Legal Books within the Iberian
Empires: Sources and Materials
Airton Ribeiro da Silva Jr., University of Helsinki
17:00 Law and Police in the Early Modern Overseas Empires of
Spain, Portugal, and the Dutch Republic: A Comparative
Framework
Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki
17:30 Concluding discussion
Translations by Airton Ribeiro
Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UFRGS, 2023
Com o Iluminismo, o Direito Criminal moderno aflorou, e sua relação com o cristianismo mudou de m... more Com o Iluminismo, o Direito Criminal moderno aflorou, e sua relação com o cristianismo mudou de maneiras importantes. Os ataques contra o cristianismo e o clero como instituições removeram várias barreiras institucionais que haviam emanado da rígida ideologia cristã. No entanto, a representação tradicional da secularização do Direito Criminal ainda requer revisão. O artigo destaca cinco pontos. Primeiro, reformistas iluministas não inventaram todas as novidades que estão tradicionalmente ligadas aos seus nomes. Segundo, é importante enfatizar que pensadores como Beccaria, Filangieri e Pagano não eram eles mesmos ateístas ou mesmo antirreligiosos. Terceiro, o iluminismo não liberou o Direito Criminal do cristianismo. Em alguns casos a religião podia ainda servir como ideologia de fundo do Direito Criminal. Quarto, vários dos preceitos básicos do Direito Criminal moderno surgiram bem antes, no Direito Canônico medieval. O princípio da culpa individualizável é um bom exemplo. Quinto, na maioria dos países ocidentais, reformistas prisionais ativos estavam frequentemente eles mesmos orientados pela fé cristã. Ao lado do trabalho, a religião era, ainda no século XIX, considerada uma das ferramentas principais para ressocialização e disciplinamento de detentos.
Books by Airton Ribeiro
Relatório de pesquisas sobre Direito Internacional Humanitário, Conflitos Armados e Jurisdição In... more Relatório de pesquisas sobre Direito Internacional Humanitário, Conflitos Armados e Jurisdição Internacional.
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Conference Presentations by Airton Ribeiro
11.00 Welcoming words
Jaakko Husa, University of Helsinki
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law
Professor of Law and Globalization
11.15 Project launch
Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki
Academy Professor
Professor of Comparative Legal History
11.30 Keynote speech
Global Legal History on the Ground: a Perspective from African
Archives
Mariana Dias Paes, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and
Legal Theory
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Legal History and Early Modern Dutch Colonial Empire:
Historiographical and Methodological Questions
Henri Hannula, University of Helsinki
14:30 Dealing with Colonial Complexity: the Relevance of
'Policey' Law to the Emergence of Modern Law
Nathaly Mancilla-Órdenes, University of Helsinki
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Keynote speech
Early Modern Ordinances Meet Digital Humanities: an Exploration
of the Use of Taxonomies and Automatic Metadating
Annemieke Romein, Huygens Institute for the History of the
Netherlands
16:30 Global Circulation of Legal Books within the Iberian
Empires: Sources and Materials
Airton Ribeiro da Silva Jr., University of Helsinki
17:00 Law and Police in the Early Modern Overseas Empires of
Spain, Portugal, and the Dutch Republic: A Comparative
Framework
Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki
17:30 Concluding discussion
Translations by Airton Ribeiro
Books by Airton Ribeiro
28 de noviembre de 2022
Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos
11.00 Welcoming words
Jaakko Husa, University of Helsinki
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law
Professor of Law and Globalization
11.15 Project launch
Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki
Academy Professor
Professor of Comparative Legal History
11.30 Keynote speech
Global Legal History on the Ground: a Perspective from African
Archives
Mariana Dias Paes, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and
Legal Theory
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Legal History and Early Modern Dutch Colonial Empire:
Historiographical and Methodological Questions
Henri Hannula, University of Helsinki
14:30 Dealing with Colonial Complexity: the Relevance of
'Policey' Law to the Emergence of Modern Law
Nathaly Mancilla-Órdenes, University of Helsinki
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Keynote speech
Early Modern Ordinances Meet Digital Humanities: an Exploration
of the Use of Taxonomies and Automatic Metadating
Annemieke Romein, Huygens Institute for the History of the
Netherlands
16:30 Global Circulation of Legal Books within the Iberian
Empires: Sources and Materials
Airton Ribeiro da Silva Jr., University of Helsinki
17:00 Law and Police in the Early Modern Overseas Empires of
Spain, Portugal, and the Dutch Republic: A Comparative
Framework
Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki
17:30 Concluding discussion