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Circulation of Knowledge about Natural Law in the Habsburg Monarchy: the Public Examinations of Zagreb Professors Vinko Kalafatić and Pavao Antun Marković

The paper examines the circulation of legal knowledge within the intellectual community of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of the 18th and in the first decade of the 19th century based on a case study of Vinko Kalafatić and Pavao Antun Mar- ković, law professors in Zagreb. The primary focus will be placed on the detection of certain shared components of knowledge, such as ideas, within the propaedeutic literature written by these two professors on the topic of natural law. Furthermore, it aims to evaluate possible modifications of knowledge that occurred in the process of knowledge circulation. Apart from highlighting the relevant topics within the field of natural, general public law and the law of nations which are discussed in this body of legal literature, the article introduces the heuristic concept of distant reading to the historical inquiry. This approach utilizes the historian’s access to digital text analysis tools in order to discern textual features that are otherwise inaccessible but nonetheless vital for the detection of more subtle evidence of knowledge circulation.

Vinko Kalafatić, Pavao Antun Marković, legal knowledge, Royal Academy of Sciences in Zagrebu, knowledge circulation, distant reading

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