War and Peace
War and Peace

Author: Valentina Vadi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-05-18

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9004426035

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This treatise investigates the emergence of the early modern law of nations, focusing on Alberico Gentili’s contribution to the same. A religious refugee and Regius Professor at the University of Oxford, Alberico Gentili (1552–1608) lived in difficult times of religious wars and political persecution. He discussed issues that were topical in his lifetime and remain so today, including the clash of civilizations, the conduct of war, and the maintenance of peace. His idealism and political pragmatism constitute the principal reasons for the continued interest in his work. Gentili’s work is important for historical record, but also for better analysing and critically assessing the origins of international law and its current developments, as well as for elaborating its future trajectories.

Bartolus of Sassoferrato
Bartolus of Sassoferrato

Author: Cecil Nathan Sidney Woolf

Publisher: Cosimo Classics

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13:

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"We doubted of Ulpian, and are now more perplexed with Bartolus and Baldus." -Montaigne, Essays, III. 13 (1580) Bartolus of Sassoferrato (1913) by Cecil N. Sidney Woolf was originally written as a dissertation when he was a fellow at Cambridge University and expanded into a book that same year. This biography explores the theories and ideas of the distinguished Italian law professor and noted jurist of Medieval Roman Law. Woolf quotes much of Bartolus' writing which is considered to be the foundation of civil law. Bartolus earned high status among lawyers, sparking the adage: no one is a good jurist unless he is a Bartolist. Readers with an interest in great jurists must add this book to their personal collection.