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Author Varkemaa, Jussi

Title Conrad Summenhart's theory of individual rights / by Jussi Varkemaa
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 266 pages)
Series Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 159
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 159.
Contents Medieval discussions on rights. Bonaventure -- Godfrey of Fontaines -- Peter John Olivi -- Hervaeus Natalis -- William Ockham -- Richard Fitzralph -- Jean Gerson -- Antoninus of Florence -- The right of the individual. Right as power -- Right as dominion -- Right as a relation -- The species of dominion. The six-fold dominion -- Natural dominion -- Property rights. Justification of private property -- The rights of use (usus) and usufruct (usufructus) -- Ownership (proprietas) and possession (possessio)
Summary In recent decades scholars have shown considerable and steadily increasing interest in medieval discussions of rights. This book aims to make a significant contribution to scholarship by providing a detailed and systematic account of Conrad Summenhart's (1455-1502) language of individual rights. Starting from the view that Summenhart's Opus septipertitum contains a carefully constructed and comprehensive theory of individual rights, this study analyses Summenhart's theory in its historical context treating it as a culmination of late medieval discourse on individual rights. This study is particularly useful to scholars interested in the origin of human rights language and modern political individualism, as well as to all those who work in the field of late medieval and early modern political and moral philosophy. -- Book Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Summenhart, Konrad, 1465-1511 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Summenhart, Konrad, 1465-1511 fast
Summenhart, Conrad 1455-1502 gnd
Summenhart, Conrad. swd
Subject Human rights -- Philosophy
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Human rights -- Philosophy
Political and social views
Individualrecht
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004225565
9004225560