Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474408868
• Artikelnr.: 50005377

Autorenporträt

Paul J. du Plessis is Professor of Roman Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses predominantly on the multifaceted and complex set of relationships between law and society in a historical context. Paul is an experienced editor and author. He is co-editor of the following publications: The Making of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (EUP, 2010), Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (EUP, 2007), Reassessing Legal Humanism and Its Claims (EUP, 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society (OUP, 2016). He is also editor of New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World (EUP, 2013), Cicero's Law: Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic (EUP, 2016) and Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law (OUP, 2015). John W. Cairns is Professor of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include law and the Enlightenment, the history of Scots law, codification in Louisiana, and law and slavery. He has published two collections of essays in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series: Law, Lawyers, and Humanism: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1 and Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2 (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). He is the co-editor, with Paul J. du Plessis, of The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

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