Conrad Summenhart's theory of individual rights
By: by Jussi Varkemaa
Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions -- v. 159
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9789004216839
Subjects: Human rights; Philosophy; Political and social views
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.