Acknowledgements -- 9; Preface by Leon Pompa -- 11; Introduction -- 17; For Beginning: Philology, Right and History -- 41; CHAPTER I; Johannes Fredericus Gronovius: Philologist and Historian -- 71; A Journey to Italy -- 72; The Myth of Rome in the "Oratio de Lege Regia" -- 99; CHAPTER II; Right, Politics and History in Ulrik Huber -- 135; "Corpus Iuris" and the Criticism of Right -- 135; Topicality of the "Lex Regia":Rationality, History, 'Ratio Status' -- 140; Sovereignty and State in the "De Iure Civitatis" -- 158; CHAPTER III
Historical Pyrrhonism and Roman Tradition:Jacobus Perizonius -- 183The Debate on the "Fides Historica" -- 186; Cartesianism and Philological Criticism:the Meeting with Le Clerc -- 209; From the Historica "de Singularibus"to the Philosophical History -- 221; CHAPTER IV; Sovereignty and Roman Law in Gerard Noodt:"Dissertatio" of 1699 -- 227; CHAPTER V; Right, Conscience and "Summa Potestas" in Jean Barbeyrac -- 255; Natural Right and Freedom of Conscience -- 255; Noodt and Barbeyrac in the confrontation with Bayle -- 270; Afterword by Fulvio Tessitore -- 285; Bibliography -- 291; Index of Names -- 343
Notes
Expanded edition and translation of Lex regia, 1990
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-342) and index