Reassessing legal humanism and its claims : petere fontes? /: petere fontes?. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Paul J. du Plessis, John W. Cairns.
• Editors: Plessis, Paul J. du; Cairns, John W
• Contents: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Names and Book Titles -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Defining Legal Humanism -- 1 Antiqui et Recentiores: Alberico Gentili -- Beyond Mos Italicus and Legal Humanism -- 2 Humanist Philology and the text of Justinian's Digest -- Part II A Break with the Past/Contemporary Critiques -- 3 Deconstructing Iurisdictio: The Adventures of a Legal Category in the Hands of the Humanist Jurist -- 4 Reassessing the Influence of Medieval Jurisprudence on Jacques Cujas' (1522-1590) Method -- 5 Redefining Ius to Restore Justice: The Centrality of Ius Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence -- Part III Legal Humanism: A Pan-European Methodology? -- 6 Elegant Scholastic Humanism? Arias Piñel's (1515-1563) Critical Revision of Laesio Enormis -- 7 The Working Methods of Hugo Grotius: Which Sources Did he Use and How Did He Use Them in His Early -- 8 Joannes Leunclavius (1541-1594), Civilian and Byzantinist? -- 9 Brissonius in Context: De formulis et solennibus populi Romani verbis -- 10 A Lawyer and His Sources: Nicolas Bohier and Legal Practice in Sixteenth-Century France -- 11 Humanism and Law in Elizabethan England: The Annotations of Gabriel Harvey -- Part IV Legal Humanism and the Book Trade -- 12 The Thesauruses of Otto and Meerman as Publishing Enterprises: Legal Humanism in its Last Phase, -- 13 Humanist Books and Lawyers' Libraries in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Charles Areskine of A -- Postscript -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 340.55; Law, Medieval -- History; Humanism -- History -- To 1500; Humanism; Law, Medieval; Law -- Legal History; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474408875; 1474408877; 9781474408868; 1474408869
• Related ISBNs: 9781474408851
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