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Author:   Virpi Mäkinen ,  Jonathan William Robinson ,  Pamela Slotte ,  Heikki Haara
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   316
Weight:   0.539kg
ISBN:  

9789004416772

ISBN 10:   9004416773
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   28 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements About the Authors Abbreviations Introduction: Rights and Justice towards the Margins  Virpi Mäkinen, Jonathan Robinson and Pamela Slotte PART 1: Rights and the Poor Law 1 Poverty and Need in the Fourteenth Century: Johannes Andreae, Bartolus of Saxoferrato, and Baldus de Ubaldis  Jonathan Robinson 2 Poor and Insolvent: Debtor Relief in Alvarez de Velasco’s De privilegiis pauperum (1630)  Wim Decock PART 2: Rights, Duties and Justice 3 Inclination to Self-Preservation and Rights to Life and Body in Samuel Pufendorf’s Natural Law Theory  Heikki Haara 4 The Right of Necessity: From Hugo Grotius to Adam Smith  John Salter PART 3: Rights Beyond the Margins 5 Rights and Needs: Widows as a Protected Group in Christine de Pizan’s Thought  Ilse Paakkinen 6 Can Animals Have Rights? Conrad Summenhart and Francisco de Vitoria at the Margins of Rights Language  Jussi Varkemaa 7 Whether Heretics and Infidels Can Possess Dominion Rights? Late Medieval and Early Modern Debates  Virpi Mäkinen and Mikko Posti PART 4: Geopolitical, Global, and Contemporary Perspectives at the Margins 8 The Darker Side of Rights in Global Intellectual History: an Ambivalent Case of Franciscan Poverty  Julia McClure 9 Necessity Knows No Borders: the Right of Necessity and Illegalized Migration  Alejandra Mancilla 10 “Rights, Not Charity!” On Vocabularies for Conceptualizing the Case of Persons with Disabilities  Pamela Slotte Index of names Subject Index

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Virpi Mäkinen is Senior Lecturer in Theological and Social Ethics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has published monographs and many articles on medieval and early modern intellectual history, including Property Rights in the Late Medieval Discussion on Franciscan Poverty (Peeters, 2001), and co-edited Transformations in Late Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse (Springer, 2006). Jonathan Robinson, Ph.D. (2010) in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. He currently acts as a lawyer and is the author of William of Ockham’s Theory of Property Rights in Context (Brill, 2012). Pamela Slotte is Associate Professor of Minority Studies at the Åbo Akademi University, Finland. She is the co-author of The Juridification of Religion (Brill, 2017) and co-editor of Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Heikki Haara is Senior Lecturer of Political History at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Pufendorf’s Theory of Sociability: Passions, Habits and Social Order (Springer, 2018).

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