Full Description
The traditional grand narratives of European legal history have begun to be questioned, to the extent that the nature and legacy of legal humanism now deserve closer scrutiny. Building on the groundbreaking work by Douglas Osler, who has been critical of the traditional narratives, this volume interrogates the orthodox views regarding legal humanism and its legacy. Fundamentally reassessing the nature and impact of legal humanism on the narratives of European legal history, these 14 essays bring together the foremost international experts in related fields of legal and intellectual history to debate the central issues.
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 J Osler
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
