To write a history of legal imagination before the 19th century is no small endeavour, and one that this book undoubtedly accomplishes. Marshalling what seems like an impossible array of literature, sources, languages and topics, Martti Koskenniemi takes the reader on an exploration of the slow, political construction of our present, understood as the series of distinctions that rest upon the foundational notions of sovereignty and property. Koskenniemi’s interest is avowedly not writing a linear (pre-)history of international law, but rather exploring the connections between different ways in which legal idiom has been used in the context of specific disputes.

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主权国王和有产主体：开端和替代方案第 1 章：基督教世界中的法律想象

撰写一部 19 世纪之前的法律想象史是一项不小的努力，而本书无疑做到了这一点。Martti Koskenniemi 整理了看似不可能的一系列文献、来源、语言和主题，带领读者探索我们现在缓慢的政治建构，理解为基于主权和财产基本概念的一系列区别. 科斯肯涅米的兴趣显然不是写国际法的线性（前）历史，而是探索在特定争端的背景下使用法律成语的不同方式之间的联系。