Disputas: Sjur Atle Furali

Cand.theol Sjur Atle Furali vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: "Misgjerningenes orden -  Danske lovs Siette Bog som kongelig representasjonssymbol og formidler av Guds orden i det tidlige eneveldet" 

Sjur Atle FuraliTid og sted for prøveforelesning

Prøveforelesningen vil finne sted fredag 9. desember kl. 10.15 - 11.00 i auditorium U40.

Bedømmelseskomité

  • Førsteamanuensis Nina Javette Kofoed, Aarhus Universitet (førsteopponent)
  • Professor Helle Vogt, Københavns Universitet (annenopponent)
  • Professor Hallgeir Elstad, Det teologiske fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo

Disputasleder

Dekan Aud Tønnessen

Sammendrag

Avhandlingens tittel, Misgjerningenes orden, er på den ene side en hentydning til det primære forskningsmaterialet, Siette Bog: Om Misgierninger, som var Kong Christian den femtis Danske Lovs dekalogisk ordnede strafferettslige lovgivning. På hin side peker tittelen på avhandlingens teoretiske rammeverk, hvor det tas utgangspunkt i Barbara Stollberg-Rilingers teori om symbolske ordener i europeiske samfunn i før- og tidligmoderne tid. Gjennom å undersøke konflikter omkring lovgivningsarbeidet etter innføringen av eneveldet i 1660, endringer i forholdet mellom kirke og stat, og til sist hvordan straffebestemmelsene ble formulert og plassert i Siette Bog, belyses det hvordan Guds orden og kongens tilstedeværelse ble formidlet uti riket, gjennom den strafferettslige lovgivningen.

Det vil si at Siette Bog: Om Misgierninger var en viktig, stabiliserende faktor for det dansk-norske eneveldet, og derfor bidragsytende i at det besto lenge etter at de andre europeiske eneveldene hadde bukket under.

English abstract

The purpose of the 'Order of Misdeeds' has been to provide new knowledge about how the relationship between the clergy and the secular authorities was changed, as a result of the introduction of absolutism. This then helps to shed new light on how 'Siette Bog: Om Misgierninger', King Christian V Danish Law's criminal law, was characterized by the secession from the aristocracy on which the absolute monarchy necessarily had to build on. This is done by examining how God's order and the king's presence were communicated through 'Siette Bog'. This issue is based on the king being a symbolic representation of God (i.e. God's representative), and the institution of the monarchy a reflection of God's order (i.e. an imitation of God). The legislative king became, through his legislation, omnipresent in his kingdom, while his legislation corresponded to God's law and thus conveyed God's order. To clarify these two functions, Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger's theory of communication by symbols in pre- and early modern societies is used as a theoretical framework.

In order to be able to understand more of how the relationship between secular and clerical authorities changed with the introduction of the monarchy, a thorough analysis of the preparatory work for Siette Bog has been carried out. The analysis is in three parts, where the first part deals with the conflict over the fiscal law in the period 1661-1663, the second part deals with how the author of the law, Rasmus Vinding, landed on a decalogical organizing principle for Siette Bog, while the third and last part looks at legal rules transferred from the kingdom's previous body of law, Store Reces, and whether their placement or wording was changed.

It is concluded that the conflict between the Supreme Court and Søren Kornerup, regarding fiscal law, was decisive for the stabilization of the monarchy and its long life. Furthermore, it is concluded that the decalogical ordering principle was not an expression of Lutheran piety, but may have been chosen to place crimine majestatis humanae in an extension of crimine majestatis divinae. This legitimized the placement of majesty crimes within criminal law, so that the idea of a separate fiscal law was put to death once and for all. It is also shown how the new system of law in Danish law led to a secularization of the legislation as such, that the individual was made even more responsible for his misdeeds and that the state became more intrusive in private homes. Finally, it is argued that some of the most brutal penal provisions were symbolic expressions of absolute state.

Publisert 1. des. 2022 09:38 - Sist endret 7. mars 2023 09:44