Présentation éditeur

Essays challenging the nature and legacy of legal humanism
The traditional grand narratives of European legal history have begun to be questioned, to the extend that the nature and legacy of legal humanism now deserve closer scrutiny. Building on the groundbreaking work by Douglas Osler, who has been critical of the traditional narratives, this volume interrogates the orthodox views regarding legal humanism and its legacy. 
Fundamentally reassessing the nature and impact of legal humanism on the narratives of European legal history, this volume brings together the foremost international experts in related fields of legal and intellectual history to debate the central issues.
Legal humanism has become deeply entrenched in most modern works on European legal history from the seventeenth century onwards and has been accepted with such blind faith by many modern scholars that few have challenged it. The consequence is that scholars who have accepted the traditional view have used it to substantiate larger claims about the death of Roman law, the separation between the golden age of a pan-European medieval ius commune and the fragmented reception of Roman law into the nation states of Europe, and the relevance of ‘dogmatic’ Roman law as opposed to ‘antiquarian’ Roman law. Authors / Editors

• Paul J. du Plessis is Senior Lecturer in Civil Law and Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses predominantly on the multifaceted and complex set of relationships between law and society in a historical context. He is the co-editor, with John W Cairns, of The Making of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and Reassessing Legal Humanism and Its Claims: Petere Fontes? (Edinburgh University Press 2015). He is the editor of the critically acclaimed New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press 2013).
  John W. Cairns is Professor of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include law and the Enlightenment, the history of Scots law, codification in Louisiana, and law and slavery. He has published two collections of essays in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series: Law, Lawyers, and Humanism: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1 and Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2 (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). He is the co-editor, with Paul J. du Plessis, of The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).

 

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Preface

A Note on Names and Book Titles

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Introduction, John W Cairns

Part I: Defining Legal Humanism

1. Antiqui et Recentiores: Alberico Gentili – Beyond Mos Italicus and Legal Humanism, Alain Wijffels

2. Humanist Philology and the Text of Justinian’s Digest, Douglas J Osler

Part II: A Break With the Past/Contemporary Critiques

3. Deconstructing Iurisdictio: The Adventures of a Legal Category in the Hands of the Humanist Jurists, Guido Rossi

4. Reassessing the Influence of Medieval Jurisprudence on Jacques Cujas’ (1522–1590) Method, Xavier Prévost

5. Redefining Ius to Restore Justice: The Centrality of Ius Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence, Susan Longfield Karr

Part III: Legal Humanism - A Pan-European Methodology

6. Elegant Scholastic Humanism? Arias Piñel’s (1515–1563) Critical Revision of Laesio Enormis, Wim Decock

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?, Martine J van Ittersum

8. Joannes Leunclavius (1541–1594), Civilian and Byzantinist?, Bernard Stolte

9. Brissonius in Context: De formulis et solennibus populi Romani verbis, Éva Jakab

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

11. Humanism and Law in Elizabethan England: The Annotations of Gabriel Harvey, David Ibbetson

Part IV: Legal Humanism and the Book Trade

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

13. Humanist Books and Lawyers’ Libraries in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Charles Areskine of Alva’s Library, Karen G Baston

Postscript, Paul J du Plessis

Index

Politix
2015/3 (n°111)
Sociologie politique des sciences

De Boeck Supérieur, 2015, 218 p., ISSN:0295-2319 / ISSN en ligne:1953-8286 - http://www.cairn.info/revue-politix-2015-3.htmNuméros antérieurs disponibles sur www.persee.frSommaireÉditorial

Dossier: Sociologie politique des sciences

• Yann Bérard,  Antoine Roger, Ronds-points théoriques et passages à niveau analytiques. La sociologie politique peut-elle rencontrer la sociologie des sciences ?
• Céline Granjou, Grandeurs de l’écologie. D’un écotron à l’autre
• Lydie Cabane,  Sandrine Revet, La cause des catastrophes. Concurrences scientifiques et actions politiques dans un monde transnational
• Fabien Carrié, Le savant, le cobaye et l’antivivisectionniste. Circulation, réception et universalisation des innovations expérimentales dans les sciences du vivant (France et Grande-Bretagne, 1860-1890)
• Julien Weisbein, Capter et (co)produire des savoirs sous contraintes: le tournant expert de Surfrider Foundation Europe
• Jean-Baptiste Paranthoën, L’incursion des scientifiques dans l’organisation des marchés agricoles. La promotion des circuits courts

Lecture critique

• Frédéric Nicolas, Pour une nouvelle sociologie politique des sciences? À propos de The New Political Sociology of Science. Institutions, Networks, and Power de Scott Frickel et Kelly Moore

Varia

• Julien Beaugé, Stigmatisation et rédemption. Le port du voile comme «épreuve»
• Jean-Noël Jouzel,  Giovanni Prete, Mettre en mouvement les agriculteurs victimes des pesticides. Émergence et évolution d’une coalition improbable

Notes de lecture

Julie Henry
Spinoza, une anthropologie éthique - Variations affectives et historicité de l'existence

Paris, Classiques Garnier (Les Anciens et les Modernes - Études de philosophie, n°24), déc. 2015, 517 p., ISBN 978-2-8124-3720-5, 38€ (broché) / 79€ (relié)

 

Présentation éditeur

Penser l'éthique comme devenir à partir d'une lecture renouvelée et précise des textes spinozistes, et laisser une place significative aux affects, au désir, à l'imagination, à l'histoire personnelle et aux rencontres: telle est l'ambition de l' «anthropologie éthique» mise en place par l'auteur.

The ambition of the “ethical anthropology” established by the author is to think about ethics as a process of becoming by way of a new and precise reading of Spinoza and to give a significant place to affects, desire, imagination, personal history, and encounters.

Table des matières

Sommaire

Préface

Avertissement

Introduction

Première partie. - UNE QUESTION CORPORELLE AU SEIN D’UN ENJEU HUMAIN. - CORPS INDIVIDUEL, CORPS PROPRE ET CORPS SINGULIER

Deuxième partie. - DES VARIATIONS À L’ACCROISSEMENT DES APTITUDES. - DEVENIR AUTRE SANS CHANGER DE FORME

Troisième partie. - LA CARACTÉRISATION DES HOMMES PAR LE BIAIS DES APTITUDES. - LEUR RECRÉATION, LEUR ACCROISSEMENT, LEUR RÉORDONNANCEMENT

Quatrième partie. - LA REDÉFINITION SPINOZISTE DE L’ÉTHIQUE EN REGARD DES TERMES TRADITIONNELS DE LA MORALE

Conclusion

Bibliographie

Index

 

Journal on European History of Law

vol. 6 / n°2 2015 n°2

 © 2015 STS Science Centre Ltd., Printed in the EU, 190 p., ISSN 2042-6402, 18€Table of contents

• Diemut Majer, Höchstgerichtsbarkeit in Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Ein rechtshistorischer Rückblick (The Jurisdiction of the Constitutional Justice in Germany in 19th and 20th Century. Legally-Historical View)
• Christoph Schmetterer, Die Kompetenz zur Regelung des Militärstrafverfahrens in Österreich(-Ungarn) (The Competency to Enact Rules for Military Criminal Procedure in Austra(-Hungary)
• István Stipta: Rituale Blutanklage in Ungarn im Jahre 1883 (Ritual blood libel in Hungary in 1883)
• Zoltán J. Tóth, Statutory Regulation of Capital Punishment in Hungary during the Horthy Era and World War II
• Iván Halász, The Institutional Framework and Methods of the Implementation of Soviet Legal Ideas in the Czechoslovakia and Hungary during Stalinism
• Ádám Rixer, General and Legal Meaning of Civil Society in Hungary from the Beginning till 1989
• Anna Klimaszewska, The Reception of the French Commercial Law on the Polish Lands in the First Half of the 19th Century
• Pawel Kacprzak, Rechtliche und organisatorische Grundlagen des Funktionierens der Arbeitslager in Polen in den Jahren 1945 – 1950 (The Legal and Organizational Principles of the Labor Camps in Poland 1945 – the 1950s.)
• Karol Siemaszko, Security of Post-German Movable Property in the First Years after the End of World War II in the Light of Selected Cases Considered by the Regional Court in Gorzów Wielkopolski
• Kamil Niewinski, Solidarity and the Judiciary in the Polish People’s Republic in the Years 1980–1981
• Miriam Laclavíková, Adriana Švecová: Attempts to Unify and Codify Private Law during the Period of the Inter-war Czechoslovak Republic
• Ján Štefanica, Selected Aspects of the Creation and Development of the Rules of International Law for the Prosecution of War Criminals
• Dmitry Poldnikov, Magna Carta: Disentangling History from Myth in Russia
• Katrin Treska, Engjëll Likmeta, The Funds for the Execution of Obligations (Contract) according to the Albanian Customary Law
• Iván Siklósi, Treasure Trove in Roman Law, in Legal History, and in Modern Legal Systems. A Brief Summary
• Miklós Kelemen, Veränderung der Beschaffenheit der „annona militaris“ in der späten Kaiserzeit (The Meaning Changes of the Annona Militaris in the Later Roman Empire)
• János Erdody, The Regula “nasciturus pro iam nato habetur” and the Appearance of the Expression “mulieris portio” in the Digest and its Consequences
• Pál Sáry, The Rules of Condemnation to the Mines in Imperial Rome
• József Benke, What Would ‘Praetor Paulus’ Do in ‘Post-Lehman’ World? A Comparative Analysis of Lawmakers’ Responses to the Spreading Practice of Fraudulent Transfers’ Novel Ruses in Late Roman Republic’s Liquidity Crisis and in 21st Century Hungarian ‘Post-Lehman’ Crunch: Some Morals of the ‘Paulian Action’
• Adolfo A. Diaz Bautista Cremades, Notes about Sport Finance in Rome
• Michael Conforti, John Wilkes, the Wilkite Lawyers and Locke’s Appeal to Law
• Jirí Bilý, Marxism in the West Thought Interpretation of Law in Postwar Period
• Jacek Zielinski, Myth of the Truth in the Heterogeneous Society

 Book Reviews

• Fenyvesi Csaba, A kriminalisztika tendenciái. A bunügyi nyomozás múltja, jelene, jövoje
• Iole Fargnoli/Stefan Rebenich (Hrsg.), Theodor Mommsen und die Bedeutung des Römischen Rechts [Tendencies in Criminalistics: The Past, Present and Future of Criminal Investigation]
• Martin Löhnig (Hrsg.), Zwischenzeit. Rechtsgeschichte der Besatzungsjahre
• Gerald Mund (Hrsg.): Deutschland und das Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren. Aus den deutschen diplomatischen Akten von 1939 bis 1945
• Susanne Lösch, Die coniunctio in testamentarischen Verfügungen des klassischen römischen Rechts
• Anna Margarete Seelentag, Ius pontificium cum iure civili coniunctum. Das Recht der Arrogation in klassischer Zeit

 Reports from History of Law

• Die Publikationen der Liechtensteinisch-Tschechischen Historikerkommission
• János Zlinszky

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