Reassessing legal humanism and its claims : petere fontes? /

Reassessing legal humanism and its claims : petere fontes? / edited by Paul J. du Plessis and John W. Cairns. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2016.. - 1 online resource (xiii, 402 pages). - Edinburgh studies in law ; volume 15 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Antiqui et recentiores : Alberico Gentili : beyond mos Italicus and legal humanism / Humanist philology and the text of Justinian's digest / Deconstructing iurisdictio : the adventures of a legal category in the hands of the humanist jurists / Reassessing the influence of medieval jurisprudence on Jacques Cujas' (1522-1590) method / Redefining ius to restore justice : the centrality of ius gentium in humanist jurisprudence / Elegant scholastic humanism? : Arias Piñel's (1515-1563) critical revision of laesio enormis / 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? / Joannes Leunclavius (1541-1594), civilian and Byzantinist / Brissonius in context : de formulis et solennibus populi Romani verbis / A lawyer and his sources : Nicolas Bohier and legal practice in sixteenth-century France / Humanism and law in Elizabethan England : the annotations of Gabriel Harvey / The thesauruses of Otto and Meerman as publishing enterprises : legal humanism in its last phase, 1725-1780 / Humanist books and lawyers' libraries in early eighteenth-century Scotland : Charles Areskine of Alva's library / Postscript / John W. Cairns -- Alain Wijffels -- Douglas J Osler -- Guido Rossi -- Xavier Prévost -- Susan Longfield Karr -- Wim Decock -- Martine J van Ittersum -- Bernard Stolte -- Éva Jakab -- Jasmin Hepburn -- David Ibbetson -- Ian Maclean -- Karen G Baston -- Paul J du Plessis.

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.



9781474408868 9781474418522


Humanism.
Law--Philosophy.
Law, Medieval.


Electronic Books.

KJ147 / .R437 2016 K456