Equity in early modern legal scholarship / / Lorenzo Maniscalco.

• Superior document: Legal History Library ; 43
• VerfasserIn: Maniscalco, Lorenzo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill Nijhoff,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Legal History Library ; 43.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Equity in Early Modern Legal Scholarship takes the reader through the vast amount of legal writings on equity that were published in continental Europe in early modern times. The book offers the first comprehensive overview of the development of the legal concept of equity through the sixteenth and seventeenth century. During this time, equity scholarship broke with its medieval past and entered a lively debate on the nature and function of the concept. Lorenzo Maniscalco links these developments to the early modern identification of equity with Aristotelian epieikeia , a conceptual shift that brought down the barrier that divided theological and legal writings on equity and led to its development as a tool for the interpretation and amendment of legal rules.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Equity in Early Modern Legal Scholarship -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction -- 1 Background: Aequitas and epieikeia in the Medieval Ius commune -- 1.1 Aequitas in the Medieval Ius commune -- 1.2 Aequitas as epieikeia -- 2 The Introduction and Diffusion of Epieikeia in Legal Scholarship -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Introduction of Epieikeia in Legal Scholarship -- 2.2.1 Gulielmus Budaeus and the Introduction of Epieikeia in Legal Scholarship -- 2.2.2 Humanistic Aristotelianism: Leonardus Aretinus and Epieikeia as Aequum et Bonum -- 2.2.3 A New Approach to Aequitas -- 2.3 Aequitas in Legal Humanism I: Challenging the Medieval Orthodoxy -- 2.3.1 Marius Salamonius and Aequitas as Interpretation -- 2.3.1.1 What Equity as Epieikeia Is -- 2.3.1.2 What Equity Does: Equitable Interpretation and Emendation -- 2.3.1.3 Concluding Remarks on Salamonius -- 2.3.2 Claudius Cantiuncula - Universal and Particular Equity -- 2.3.3 Lutheran Jurists on Equity -- 2.3.3.1 Philipp Melanchthon -- 2.3.3.2 Johannes Oldendorpius -- 2.3.4 The Consolidation of Salamonius' Theory in Connanus and Duarenus -- 2.3.4.1 Aequitas as Interpretation in Connanus and Duarenus -- 2.3.4.2 Natural Equity and Civil Equity in Connanus and Duarenus -- 2.3.4.3 The Application of Interpretatio ex Aequo et Bono in Connanus and Duarenus -- 2.3.5 Concluding Remarks - Equity as Epieikeia among Early Legal Humanists -- 2.3.6 The Influence of Rhetorical Status Theory -- 3 Aequitas and Epieikeia among Early Modern Scholastic Writers -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Theological Concept of epieikeia -- 3.3 The Approach of Sixteenth-century Thomist Theologians and Jurists -- Chapter 4 The Place of Equity within Doctrines of Interpretation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Development of the Concept of Equity in Later Civil Law.

4.3 Legacy - A Specific Role for Equitable Interpretation? -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Primary Sources -- Medieval and Early Modern Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Name Index -- Subject Index.