Rights at the Margins : Historical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Rights and Justice towards the Margins -- Part 1 Rights and the Poor Law -- Chapter 1 Poverty and Need in the 14th Century: Johannes Andreae, Bartolus of Saxoferrato, and Baldus de Ubaldis -- Chapter 2 Poor and Insolvent: Debtor Relief in Alvarez de Velasco's De privilegiis pauperum (1630) -- Part 2 Rights, Duties, and Justice -- Chapter 3 Inclination to Self-Preservation and Rights to Life and Body in Samuel Pufendorf's Natural Law Theory -- Chapter 4 The Right of Necessity: From Hugo Grotius to Adam Smith -- Part 3 Rights beyond the Margins -- Chapter 5 Rights and Needs: Widows as a Protected Group in Christine de Pizan's Thought -- Chapter 6 Can Animals Have Rights? Conrad Summenhart and Francisco de Vitoria at the Margins of Rights Language -- Chapter 7 Whether Heretics and Infidels Can Possess Dominion Rights? Late Medieval and Early Modern Debates -- Part 4 Geopolitical, Global, and Contemporary Perspectives at the Margins -- Chapter 8 The Darker Side of Rights in Global Intellectual History: An Ambivalent Case of Franciscan Poverty -- Chapter 9 Necessity Knows No Borders: The Right of Necessity and Illegalized Migration -- Chapter 10 "Rights, Not Charity"! On Vocabularies for Conceptualizing the Case of Persons with Disabilities -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

Rights at the Margins explores the ways rights were available to those on the margins and their relationship with social justice in medieval and early modern thought. It also elaborates the relevance of some historical ideas in the contemporary context.

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