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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Druwé, Wouter editor | Lesaffer, Randall editor | Sluijs, Geert
editor
Title: Natural law and domestic government in the early modern period /
edited by Wouter Druwé, Randall Lesaffer, and Geert Sluijs.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, Inc, 2026. |
Series: Legal History Library ; volume 80 | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2025038217 | ISBN 9789004748705 hardback | ISBN
9789004748712 epub
Subjects: LCSH: Natural law‐‐History | Natural law‐‐Early works to 1800 |
Natural law‐‐Philosophy | LCGFT: Law materials
Classification: LCC K415 .N35 2026 | DDC 340/.112‐‐dc23/eng/20250815
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025038217
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issn 1874-1793
isbn 978-90-04-74870-5 (hardback)
isbn 978-90-04-74871-2 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004748712
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