Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence

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Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence is written by Susan Longfield Karr and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004528458 (ISBN 10) and 9789004528451 (ISBN 13).

This book explores how the fathers of humanist jurisprudence contributed to the emergence of ius gentium as the common law not simply of Europe, but of all mankind, in the early sixteenth century. They did so by so thoroughly reinterpreting terms, idioms, and categories preserved within Justinian’s Digest that they fundamentally transformed them to address sources and limits of political and legal authority in the broader context of early-modern state formation. In the process, they offered theories of universal jurisprudence grounded in the attributes and actions of man and states that anticipated some of the most salient features of modern sovereignty and rights. Theories that we tend to identify with post-Reformation political and legal thought, rather than the early Renaissance.