Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Susan Longfield Karr -- Copyright Page / Susan Longfield Karr -- Acknowledgements / Susan Longfield Karr -- Introduction / Susan Longfield Karr -- Chapter 1 Setting the Scene / Susan Longfield Karr -- Chapter 2 Excavating, Restoring, and Redefining Jus at the Foundations of Humanist Jurisprudence / Susan Longfield Karr -- Chapter 3 Re-defining Jus to Restore Justitia / Susan Longfield Karr -- Chapter 4 Breaking with Tradition / Susan Longfield Karr -- Chapter 5 Self-Evident Truths and Demonstrable Facts / Susan Longfield Karr -- Chapter 6 The Tenacity of Violence and the Parity of Right / Susan Longfield Karr -- Conclusion / Susan Longfield Karr -- Appendix: Select Emblems by Andrea Alciati / Susan Longfield Karr -- Bibliography / Susan Longfield Karr -- Index / Susan Longfield Karr.

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.

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