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"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"--

History of the law --- International law --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- Law --- Jus gentium (Roman law) --- Humanism --- Natural law --- Roman influences. --- History --- Budé, Guillaume, --- Alciati, Andrea, --- Zasius, Ulrich, --- Influence. --- Law of nature (Law) --- Natural rights --- Nature, Law of (Law) --- Rights, Natural --- Philosophy --- Classical education --- Classical philology --- Philosophical anthropology --- Renaissance --- Roman law --- Influence --- Zasius, Udalricus, --- Zasius, Ulricus, --- Zasius, Vdalricus, --- Zäsy, Ulrich, --- Alciatus, Andreas, --- Alciato, Andrea, --- Alciat, André, --- Alciatus, And. --- Budé, Guillaume --- Budaeus, Gulielmus --- Budé, Guillaume --- Budeus, Gulielmus --- Budé, --- Budeo, Guglielmo --- Budé, G. --- Bynte, Goulielmos