Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

A Note on Names and Book Titles

pp ix-ix

List of Contributors

pp x-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-8

Part I - DEFINING LEGAL HUMANISM

pp 9-10

1 - Antiqui et Recentiores: Alberico Gentili–Beyond Mos Italicus and Legal Humanism

pp 11-40

2 - Humanist Philology and the Text of Justinian's Digest

pp 41-56

Part II - A BREAK WITH THE PAST/CONTEMPORARY CRITIQUES

pp 57-58

3 - Deconstructing Iurisdictio: The Adventures of a Legal Category in the Hands of the Humanist Jurists

pp 59-87

4 - Reassessing the Influence of Medieval Jurisprudence on Jacques Cujas’ (1522–1590) Method

pp 88-107

5 - Redefining Ius to Restore Justice: The Centrality of Ius Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence

pp 108-134

Part III - LEGAL HUMANISM: A PAN-EUROPEAN METHODOLOGY?

pp 135-136

6 - Elegant Scholastic Humanism? Arias Piñel's (1515–1563) Critical Revision of Laesio Enormis

pp 137-153

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?

pp 154-193

8 - Joannes Leunclavius (1541–1594), Civilian and Byzantinist?

pp 194-210

9 - Brissonius in Context: De formulis et solennibus populi Romani verbis

pp 211-243

10 - A Lawyer and His Sources: Nicolas Bohier and Legal Practice in Sixteenth-Century France

pp 244-281

11 - Humanism and Law in Elizabethan England: The Annotations of Gabriel Harvey

pp 282-296

Part IV - LEGAL HUMANISM AND THE BOOK TRADE

pp 297-298

12 - The Thesauruses of Otto and Meerman as Publishing Enterprises: Legal Humanism in its Last Phase, 1725–1780

pp 299-347

13 - Humanist Books and Lawyers’ Libraries in Early Eighteenth- Century Scotland: Charles Areskine of Alva's Library

pp 348-376

Postscript

pp 377-380

Index

pp 381-402