This book examines the Santillana Codes, legal instruments which form a distinct class of uniquely African civil code and are still in force today in a legal arc that extends from the Maghreb to the Sahel. Stigall presents the history of Santillana’s seminal legislative effort and provides a comparative analysis of the substance of those codes, illuminating commonalities between Islamic law and European legal systems.

Este volumen recoge cinco ponencias leídas en el Simposium, celebrado el 20 de Noviembre de 1998, con motivo del sexto centenario del nacimiento del Marqués de Santillana.

Galileo's scientific work which led him into a quarrel with the church.