Natural Law and Domestic Government in the Early Modern Period / edited by Wouter Druwé, Randall Lesaffer and Geert Sluijs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Druwé, Wouter, editor.

Lesaffer, Randall, editor.

Sluijs, Geert, editor.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026.

Legal History Library ; 80.

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026

Legal History Library ; 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law materials.

Natural law--History.

Natural law.

Natural law--Philosophy.

Natural law--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-74871-7

9789004748712

OCLC:

1551394885

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004748712 DOI