Cover illustration: Nicolas Poussin, The Judgment of Solomon, 1649. Louvre Museum.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Maniscalco, Lorenzo, author.
Title: Equity in early modern legal scholarship / by Lorenzo Maniscalco.
Description: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2020] | Series: Legal history library, 1874-1793 ; volume 43 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Contents: Background : aequitas and epieikeia in the medieval ius commune -- The introduction and diffusion of epieikeia in legal scholarship -- Aequitas and epieikeia among early modern scholastic writers -- The place of equity within doctrines of interpretation. | Summary: “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”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020025239 | ISBN 9789004404809 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004404816 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Equity--History. | Equity--Interpretation and construction.
Classification: LCC K247 .M36 2020 | DDC 346/.004--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020025239
Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface.
ISSN 1874-1793
ISBN 978-90-04-40480-9 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-40481-6 (e-book)
Copyright 2020 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher.
Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change.
This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner.