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General Information

• Project title: At the Frontiers of Humanity: Extreme Necessity in History of Ethics, Law and Politics, 300–1600
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: University of Helsinki
• Country: Finland (FI)

Research area

• Call theme: Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities
• Keywords:

  extreme necessity; famine; natural disaster; food crimes; social legislation

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  The project is looking for expertise, e.g., in historical natural disasters, their consequences (for example, for food security) and how to survive; connections of the principle of extreme necessity with food crimes; the connections between humanitarian crises in history and the development of social rights

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  The project aims to investigate the ways in which the maxim of extreme necessity (necessitas non habet legem; "necessity does not have law") has been used and interpreted in the Western intellectual history from the years 300 to 1600. More particularly, the project focuses on the legal, moral psychological and theological underpinnings as well as social and political principles that were important in the early development of the rights of subsistence. In addition, the project provides a survey of provincial laws concerning the right of necessity in medieval Scandinavian legislation.

Virpi Mäkinen

• Organisation: University of Helsinki
• Position: project PI
• E-mail: virpi.makinen@helsinki.fi
• Phone: 0407307299
• Web: blogs.helsinki.fi/extreme-necessity/