TY - BOOK AU - Druwé,Wouter AU - Lesaffer,Randall AU - Sluijs,Geert TI - Natural Law and Domestic Government in the Early Modern Period T2 - Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026 SN - 9789004748712 AV - K415 U1 - 340/.112 23 PY - 2026/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill | Nijhoff KW - Law materials KW - Natural law KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - Early works to 1800 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Wouter Druwé, Randall Lesaffer and Geert Sluijs -- PART 1 -- Sixteenth Century -- 1 Bodin, Natural Law, and Statecraft in the French Renaissance Monarchy -- Marie Seong-Hak Kim -- 2 The Mutability of Nature: Dominion, Natural Law, and the Order of Grace in Domingo de Soto’s De Iustitia et Iure (1553–1554) -- Rafael Cronje Mateus -- 3 Association and Corporation in Early Modern Jurisprudence -- Jeffrey Dymond -- PART 2 -- Early Seventeenth Century -- 4 Fides and Feudum in the Legal Thought of Petrus Gudelinus (1550–1619): A Study on Feudal, Civil, and Natural Obligations in the Early Modern Age -- Pedro R.S. Santos -- 5 Stewardship and Statesmanship: Justus Lipsius and Diodorus Tuldenus on the Natural Law of Government in the Early Modern Low Countries -- Geert Sluijs -- 6 Natural Law and Governance of the State in Henning Arnisaeus -- Paolo Astorri and Lars Cyril Nørgaard -- 7 Edward Coke’s Ciceronian Common Law -- Rosalind Acland -- PART3 -- After 1650 -- 8 The Concept of Natural Law in Thomas Hobbes’s Theory of Sovereignty -- Carlos Pérez-Crespo -- 9 ‘A Title to Another’s Plenty’: Rights of Charity in Locke’s Political Thought -- Signy Gutnick Allen -- 10 New World, Immemorial Possession: Commons and Private dominium in Portuguese America (Camamu, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries) -- Sarah Limão Papa -- Postface: When God Went awol -- Natural Law in Early-Modern Discussions on Domestic Governance Alain Wijffels N2 - Natural Law and Domestic Government in the Early Modern Period examines how natural law informed evolving ideas of governance from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through case studies spanning France, the Low Countries, England, Iberia, and colonial America, this volume explores how jurists, theologians, and political thinkers grappled with questions of sovereignty and justice. Contributors analyse influential figures from Bodin and Coke to Tuldenus and Lipsius, tracing how natural law intersected with legal concepts of rights, obligations, contracts, and associations. By uncovering diverse and contested uses of natural law, this collection offers a nuanced account of its enduring role in shaping early modern statecraft and political thinking. Contributors are: Marie Seong-Hak Kim, Rafael Cronje Mateus, Jeffrey Dymond, Pedro Ricardo da Silva Santos, Geert Sluijs, Paolo Astorri, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Rosalind Acland, Carlos Pérez-Crespo, Signy Gutnick Allen, Sarah Limão Papa, and Alain Wijffels UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004748712 ER -