Reassessing legal humanism and its claims : petere fontes? / / edited by Paul J. du Plessis and John W. Cairns [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797954403321
• Autore: du Plessis Paul J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-4744-1852-X; 1-4744-0886-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 402 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Edinburgh studies in law ; ; volume 15
• Disciplina: 340.55
• Soggetti: Humanism; Law - Philosophy; Law, Medieval
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Sep 2016).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Antiqui et recentiores : Alberico Gentili, beyond mos italicus and legal humanism / Alain Wiffels -- Humanist philology and the text of Justinian's digest / Douglas J. Osler -- Deconstructing iurisdictio : the adventures of a legal category in the hands of the humanist jurists / Guido Rossi -- Reassessing the influence of medieval jurisprudence on Jacques Cujas' (1522-1590) method / Xavier Prévost -- Redefining ius to restore justice : the centrality of ius gentium in humanist jurisprudence / Susan Longfield Karr -- Elegant scholastic humanism? Arias Piñel's (1515-1563) critical revision of Laesio enormis / Wim Decock -- 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 -- Joannes Leunclavius (1541-1594), civilian and Byzantinist? / Bernard Stolte -- Brissonius in context : de formulis et solennibus populi Romani verbis / Éva Jakab -- A lawyer and his sources : Nicolas Bohier and legal practice in sixteenth-century France / Jasmin Hepburn -- Humanism and law in Elizabethan England : the annotations of Gabriel Harvey / David Ibbetson -- The thesauruses of Otto and Meerman as publishing enterprises : legal humanism in its last phase, 1725-1780 / Ian Maclean -- Humanist books and lawyers' libraries in early eighteenth-century Scotland : Charles Areskine of Alva's library / Karen G. Baston -- ; Postscript / ; Paul J. du Plessis.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.