Rights at the margins : historical, legal and philosophical perspectives /
"The essays in this volume explore the ways rights were available to those on the margins. By tracing pivotal judicial concepts such as 'right of necessity' and 'subjective rights' from their medieval versions, and by situating them in unexpected contexts such as the Francis...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2020
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Rights and justice towards the margins / Virpi Mäkinen, Jonathan Robinson and Pamela Slotte
- Poverty and need in the 14th century : Johannes Andreae, Bartolus of Saxoferrato, and Baldus de Ubaldis / Jonathan Robinson
- Poor and insolvent : debtor relief in Alvarez de Velasco's De privilegiis pauperum (1630) / Wim Decock
- Inclination to self-preservation and rights to life and body in Samuel Pufendorf's natural law theory / Heikki Haara
- The right of necessity : from Hugo Grotius to Adam Smith / John Salter
- Rights and needs : widows as a protected group in Christine de Pizan's thought / Ilse Paakinen
- Can animals have rights? : Conrad Summenhart and Francisco de Vitoria at the margins of rights language / Jussi Varkemaa
- Whether heretics and infidels can possess dominion rights? : late medieval and early modern debates / Virpi Mäkinen and Mikko Posti
- The darker side of rights in global intellectual history : an ambivalent case of Franciscan poverty / Julia McClure
- Necessity knows no bounds : the right of necessity and illegalized migration / Alejandra Mancilla
- "Rights, not charity"! : on vocabularies for conceptualizing the case of persons with disabilities / Pamela Slotte.
