Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Ph.D. (2012), is Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-Consolidator Grant (ERC-CoG) funded project ‘IberLAND’.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Decentering Law and Empire: Law-Making, Local Normativities, and the Iberian Empires in AsiaManuel Bastias Saavedra2 Village Normativities and the Portuguese Imperial Order: The Case of Early Modern GoaÂngela Barreto Xavier3 The Principales of Philip II: Vassalage, Justice, and the Making of Indigenous Jurisdiction in the Early Colonial PhilippinesAbisai Pérez Zamarripa4 Catholics and Non-Christians in the Archbishopric of GoaProvincial Councils, Conversion, and Local Dynamics in the Production of Norms (16th–18th Centuries)Patricia Souza de Faria5 “Que los indios no puedan vender sus hijas para contraer matrimonio”: Understanding and Regulating Bridewealth and Brideservice in the Spanish Colonial Period of the PhilippinesMarya Svetlana T. Camacho6 The Janus Face of Normativities in a Global Mirror: Viewing 16th-Century Marriage Practices in Japan from Christian and Japanese TraditionsLuisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva7 On Gentilidade as a Religious Offence: A Specificity of the Portuguese Inquisition in Asia?Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço8 Theology in the Dark: The Missionary Casuistry of Japan Jesuits and Dominicans during the Tokugawa Persecution (1616–1622)Rômulo da Silva Ehalt9 Finding Norms for the Chinese Mission: The Hat Controversy in the Canton Conference of 1667/1668Marina Torres Trimállez10 Time as Norm: The Ritual Dimension of the Calendar Book and the Translation of Multi-Temporality in Late Imperial ChinaFupeng LiIndex

"Norms beyond Empire is an impressive, well-researched book composed of nine case studies plus an introductory essay, which amply does what Saavedra promises: a comparative, interdisciplinary study of the coexistence and interaction of different normative orders across China, South India, Japan, and the Philippines." - Alexandre Coello de la Rosa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra – ICREA Academia, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies 10 (2023), p. 141"This edited volume opens up new avenues for the exploration of law, specifically 'norms,' within the early modern Spanish and Portuguese empires in Asia. ... The volume thus fulfils a major objective of what has become known as 'global legal history': transcending the narrow confines of law and embracing a broader understanding of what exercised a binding force among Iberian and Asian societies and cultures." - Pedro Cardim, NOVA University Lisbon, in: Journal of Early Modern History 28 (2024)"The volume's greatest strength is that while focused on one particular set of contexts in early modern Asia, it transcends its geographical and chronological limits, and invites the reader to reexamine old orthodoxies regarding the state, law and society, be they in Asia, Europe, or elsewhere." - Stuart M. McManus, in: Ler História 81 (2022) [Online]

Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Ph.D. (2012), is Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-Consolidator Grant (ERC-CoG) funded project ‘IberLAND’.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Decentering Law and Empire: Law-Making, Local Normativities, and the Iberian Empires in AsiaManuel Bastias Saavedra2 Village Normativities and the Portuguese Imperial Order: The Case of Early Modern GoaÂngela Barreto Xavier3 The Principales of Philip II: Vassalage, Justice, and the Making of Indigenous Jurisdiction in the Early Colonial PhilippinesAbisai Pérez Zamarripa4 Catholics and Non-Christians in the Archbishopric of GoaProvincial Councils, Conversion, and Local Dynamics in the Production of Norms (16th–18th Centuries)Patricia Souza de Faria5 “Que los indios no puedan vender sus hijas para contraer matrimonio”: Understanding and Regulating Bridewealth and Brideservice in the Spanish Colonial Period of the PhilippinesMarya Svetlana T. Camacho6 The Janus Face of Normativities in a Global Mirror: Viewing 16th-Century Marriage Practices in Japan from Christian and Japanese TraditionsLuisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva7 On Gentilidade as a Religious Offence: A Specificity of the Portuguese Inquisition in Asia?Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço8 Theology in the Dark: The Missionary Casuistry of Japan Jesuits and Dominicans during the Tokugawa Persecution (1616–1622)Rômulo da Silva Ehalt9 Finding Norms for the Chinese Mission: The Hat Controversy in the Canton Conference of 1667/1668Marina Torres Trimállez10 Time as Norm: The Ritual Dimension of the Calendar Book and the Translation of Multi-Temporality in Late Imperial ChinaFupeng LiIndex

"Norms beyond Empire is an impressive, well-researched book composed of nine case studies plus an introductory essay, which amply does what Saavedra promises: a comparative, interdisciplinary study of the coexistence and interaction of different normative orders across China, South India, Japan, and the Philippines." - Alexandre Coello de la Rosa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra – ICREA Academia, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies 10 (2023), p. 141"This edited volume opens up new avenues for the exploration of law, specifically 'norms,' within the early modern Spanish and Portuguese empires in Asia. ... The volume thus fulfils a major objective of what has become known as 'global legal history': transcending the narrow confines of law and embracing a broader understanding of what exercised a binding force among Iberian and Asian societies and cultures." - Pedro Cardim, NOVA University Lisbon, in: Journal of Early Modern History 28 (2024)"The volume's greatest strength is that while focused on one particular set of contexts in early modern Asia, it transcends its geographical and chronological limits, and invites the reader to reexamine old orthodoxies regarding the state, law and society, be they in Asia, Europe, or elsewhere." - Stuart M. McManus, in: Ler História 81 (2022) [Online]

Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Ph.D. (2012), is Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-Consolidator Grant (ERC-CoG) funded project ‘IberLAND’.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Decentering Law and Empire: Law-Making, Local Normativities, and the Iberian Empires in AsiaManuel Bastias Saavedra2 Village Normativities and the Portuguese Imperial Order: The Case of Early Modern GoaÂngela Barreto Xavier3 The Principales of Philip II: Vassalage, Justice, and the Making of Indigenous Jurisdiction in the Early Colonial PhilippinesAbisai Pérez Zamarripa4 Catholics and Non-Christians in the Archbishopric of GoaProvincial Councils, Conversion, and Local Dynamics in the Production of Norms (16th–18th Centuries)Patricia Souza de Faria5 “Que los indios no puedan vender sus hijas para contraer matrimonio”: Understanding and Regulating Bridewealth and Brideservice in the Spanish Colonial Period of the PhilippinesMarya Svetlana T. Camacho6 The Janus Face of Normativities in a Global Mirror: Viewing 16th-Century Marriage Practices in Japan from Christian and Japanese TraditionsLuisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva7 On Gentilidade as a Religious Offence: A Specificity of the Portuguese Inquisition in Asia?Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço8 Theology in the Dark: The Missionary Casuistry of Japan Jesuits and Dominicans during the Tokugawa Persecution (1616–1622)Rômulo da Silva Ehalt9 Finding Norms for the Chinese Mission: The Hat Controversy in the Canton Conference of 1667/1668Marina Torres Trimállez10 Time as Norm: The Ritual Dimension of the Calendar Book and the Translation of Multi-Temporality in Late Imperial ChinaFupeng LiIndex

"Norms beyond Empire is an impressive, well-researched book composed of nine case studies plus an introductory essay, which amply does what Saavedra promises: a comparative, interdisciplinary study of the coexistence and interaction of different normative orders across China, South India, Japan, and the Philippines." - Alexandre Coello de la Rosa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra – ICREA Academia, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies 10 (2023), p. 141"This edited volume opens up new avenues for the exploration of law, specifically 'norms,' within the early modern Spanish and Portuguese empires in Asia. ... The volume thus fulfils a major objective of what has become known as 'global legal history': transcending the narrow confines of law and embracing a broader understanding of what exercised a binding force among Iberian and Asian societies and cultures." - Pedro Cardim, NOVA University Lisbon, in: Journal of Early Modern History 28 (2024)"The volume's greatest strength is that while focused on one particular set of contexts in early modern Asia, it transcends its geographical and chronological limits, and invites the reader to reexamine old orthodoxies regarding the state, law and society, be they in Asia, Europe, or elsewhere." - Stuart M. McManus, in: Ler História 81 (2022) [Online]