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Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries

Part of Law and Christianity

Editors:
Wim Decock, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Janwillem Oosterhuis, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands

Wim Decock, Janwillem Oosterhuis, Emmanuël Falzone, Bram Van Hofstraeten, Hylkje de Jong, Wouter Druwé, Janwillem Oosterhuis, Johannes van Kralingen, Atsuko Fukuoka, Jan Hallebeek, E. Koops, Matthijs de Blois, Jan Willem Sap, Frank Judo, Fred Stevens, Peter Heyrman, Timo Slootweg, Corjo Jansen, Dirk Heirbaut, Bas Hengstmengel, Laurent Waelkens

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Date Published: December 2021
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isbn: 9781108429849

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What impact has Christianity had on law and policies in the Lowlands from the eleventh century through the end of the twentieth century? Taking the gradual 'secularization' of European legal culture as a framework, this volume explores the lives and times of twenty legal scholars and professionals to study the historical impact of the Christian faith on legal and political life in the Low Countries. The process whereby Christian belief systems gradually lost their impact on the regulation of secular affairs passed through several stages, not in the least the Protestant Reformation, which led to the separation of the Low Countries in a Protestant North and a Catholic South in the first place. The contributions take up general issues such as the relationship between justice and mercy, Christianity and politics as well as more technical topics of state-church law, criminal law and social policy.
- Provides examples of multi-confessional dialogue in historical scholarship, including trans-confessional perspectives on the impact of Catholic and Protestant Christianity on Law and Society in the Low Countries
- Offers examples of inter-disciplinary scholarship that crosses the boundaries of academic scholarship and legal practice
- Includes both well-known and lesser-known authors who contributed to the development of law and society to provide fresh insights into famous historical figures over a period of almost ten centuries
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- Date Published: December 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108429849
- length: 350 pages
- dimensions: 233 x 155 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.69kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Great Christian jurists in the low countries Wim Decock and Janwillem Oosterhuis
1. Alger of Liège Emmanuël Falzone
2. Arnoldus Gheyloven Bram Van Hofstraeten
3. Boëtius Epo Hylkje de Jong
4. Leonardus Lessius Toon Van Houdt
5. Franciscus Zypaeus Wouter Druwé
6. Hugo Grotius Janwillem Oosterhuis
7. Paulus Voet (1619–1667) – A Christian jurist during the Dutch golden age Johannes van Kralingen
8. Ulrik Huber Atsuko Fukuoka
9. Zeger-Bernard van Espen Jan Hallebeek
10. Dionysius van der Keessel (1738–1816). The defiance of a Christian conservative E. Koops
11. Pieter Paulus (1753–1796) Matthijs de Blois
12. Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer Jan Willem Sap
13. Edouard Ducpétiaux – A Christian, but also a jurist? Frank Judo
14. Charles Périn Fred Stevens
15. Léon de Lantsheere (1862–1912) Peter Heyrman
16. Paul Scholten Timo Slootweg
17. Willem Duynstee Corjo Jansen
18. Jules Storme (1887–1955), the Catholic jurist and the growing pains of Christian democracy in Belgium Dirk Heirbaut
19. Herman Dooyeweerd Bas Hengstmengel
20. Josse Mertens de Wilmars (1912–2002) Laurent Waelkens.
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Editors
Wim Decock, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Wim Decock holds the chair of Roman Law and Legal History at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). He is the author of the prize-winning books Theologians and Contract Law (2013) and Le marché du mérite (2019). In 2014, he was awarded the H. M. Leibnitz-Prize by the German Research Foundation.
Janwillem Oosterhuis, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
Janwillem Oosterhuis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Methods and Foundations of Law at University of Maastricht. He is the author of Specific Performance in German, French and Dutch Law in the Nineteenth Century (2011). Since 2016, he has been Secretary General of the European Society of Comparative Legal History.
Contributors
Wim Decock, Janwillem Oosterhuis, Emmanuël Falzone, Bram Van Hofstraeten, Hylkje de Jong, Wouter Druwé, Janwillem Oosterhuis, Johannes van Kralingen, Atsuko Fukuoka, Jan Hallebeek, E. Koops, Matthijs de Blois, Jan Willem Sap, Frank Judo, Fred Stevens, Peter Heyrman, Timo Slootweg, Corjo Jansen, Dirk Heirbaut, Bas Hengstmengel, Laurent Waelkens