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Would you accept money from a generous donor if you knew it came from a criminal source? Maybe you’d have qualms about it – just like Pip, the protagonist in Dickens’ great novel.

Can you imagine a world where every human being has a specific place in the system assigned to one by God that one cannot and must not leave? In his book, Barthélemy de Chasseneuz describes such a rigid wold order. Even though he was anything but a compulsive person...

Even hard work is not always enough to make a living. In their fight for better wages, the coal miners in Zola’s novel go on strike – not without consequences…

The Swiss lawyer Jacques Godefroy studied the Codex Theodosianus for decades. His edition of this compilation of laws from the late Antiquity was only published in 1665. Our edition of this epoch-making book passed through many illustrious hands, as it tells us itself.

In 1516 Johannes Adler published his book on the legal problems arising from the constant debasement of coins for the understanding of law in early modern times. It might be the case that he indirectly criticised the monetary policies of his sovereign by doing so.