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Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims : Petere Fontes?

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Studies in LawPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (343 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474408868
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reassessing Legal Humanism and its ClaimsDDC classification:
  • 340.55
LOC classification:
  • KJ147 -- .R437 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Names and Book Titles -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: John W Cairns -- Part I: DEFINING LEGAL HUMANISM -- 1 Antiqui et Recentiores: Alberico Gentili - Beyond Mos Italicus and Legal Humanism: Alain Wijffels -- 2 Humanist Philology and the Text of Justinian's Digest: Douglas JOsler -- Part II: A BREAK WITH THE PAST/CONTEMPORARY CRITIQUES -- 3 Deconstructing Iurisdictio: The Adventures of a Legal Category in the Hands of the Humanist Jurists: Guido Rossi -- 4 Reassessing the Influence of Medieval Jurisprudence on Jacques Cujas' (1522-1590) Method: Xavier Prévost -- 5 Redefining Ius to Restore Justice: The Centrality of Ius Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: Susan Longfield Karr -- Part III: LEGAL HUMANISM: A PAN-EUROPEAN METHODOLOGY? -- 6 Elegant Scholastic Humanism? Arias Piñel's (1515-1563) Critical Revision of Laesio Enormis: Wim Decock -- 7 The Working Methods of Hugo Grotius: Which Sources Did He Use and How Did He Use Them in His Early Writings on Natural Law Theory?: Martine J van Ittersum -- 8 Joannes Leunclavius (1541-1594), Civilian and Byzantinist?: Bernard Stolte -- 9 Brissonius in Context: De formulis et solennibus populi Romani verbis: Éva Jakab -- 10 A Lawyer and His Sources: Nicolas Bohier and Legal Practice in Sixteenth-Century France: Jasmin Hepburn -- 11 Humanism and Law in Elizabethan England: The Annotations of Gabriel Harvey: David Ibbetson -- Part IV: LEGAL HUMANISM AND THE BOOK TRADE -- 12 The Thesauruses of Otto and Meerman as Publishing Enterprises: Legal Humanism in its Last Phase, 1725-1780: Ian Maclean -- 13 Humanist Books and Lawyers' Libraries in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Charles Areskine of Alva's Library: Karen G Baston -- Postscript: Paul J du Plessis -- Index.
Summary: This book is a fundamental reassessment of the nature and impact of legal humanism on the development of law in Europe. It brings together the foremost international experts in related fields such as legal and intellectual history to debate central issues surrounding this movement.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Names and Book Titles -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: John W Cairns -- Part I: DEFINING LEGAL HUMANISM -- 1 Antiqui et Recentiores: Alberico Gentili - Beyond Mos Italicus and Legal Humanism: Alain Wijffels -- 2 Humanist Philology and the Text of Justinian's Digest: Douglas JOsler -- Part II: A BREAK WITH THE PAST/CONTEMPORARY CRITIQUES -- 3 Deconstructing Iurisdictio: The Adventures of a Legal Category in the Hands of the Humanist Jurists: Guido Rossi -- 4 Reassessing the Influence of Medieval Jurisprudence on Jacques Cujas' (1522-1590) Method: Xavier Prévost -- 5 Redefining Ius to Restore Justice: The Centrality of Ius Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: Susan Longfield Karr -- Part III: LEGAL HUMANISM: A PAN-EUROPEAN METHODOLOGY? -- 6 Elegant Scholastic Humanism? Arias Piñel's (1515-1563) Critical Revision of Laesio Enormis: Wim Decock -- 7 The Working Methods of Hugo Grotius: Which Sources Did He Use and How Did He Use Them in His Early Writings on Natural Law Theory?: Martine J van Ittersum -- 8 Joannes Leunclavius (1541-1594), Civilian and Byzantinist?: Bernard Stolte -- 9 Brissonius in Context: De formulis et solennibus populi Romani verbis: Éva Jakab -- 10 A Lawyer and His Sources: Nicolas Bohier and Legal Practice in Sixteenth-Century France: Jasmin Hepburn -- 11 Humanism and Law in Elizabethan England: The Annotations of Gabriel Harvey: David Ibbetson -- Part IV: LEGAL HUMANISM AND THE BOOK TRADE -- 12 The Thesauruses of Otto and Meerman as Publishing Enterprises: Legal Humanism in its Last Phase, 1725-1780: Ian Maclean -- 13 Humanist Books and Lawyers' Libraries in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Charles Areskine of Alva's Library: Karen G Baston -- Postscript: Paul J du Plessis -- Index.

This book is a fundamental reassessment of the nature and impact of legal humanism on the development of law in Europe. It brings together the foremost international experts in related fields such as legal and intellectual history to debate central issues surrounding this movement.

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