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Rights at the Margins

Historical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives
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266 Seiten
2020
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Rights at the Margins explores the ways rights were available to those on the margins and their relationship with social justice in medieval and early modern thought. It also elaborates the relevance of some historical ideas in the contemporary context.
The essays in this volume explore the ways rights were available to those in the margins of society. By tracing pivotal judicial concepts such as ‘right of necessity’ and ‘subjective rights’ back to their medieval versions, and by situating them in unexpected contexts such as the Franciscans’ theory of poverty and colonization or today’s immigration and border control, this volume invites its readers to consider whether individual rights were in fact, or at least in theory, available to the marginalized. By focusing not only on the economically impoverished but also those who were disenfranchised because of disability, gender, race, religion or infidelity, this book also sheds light on the relationship between the early history of individual rights and social justice at the margins.



Contributors are: Wim Decock, Heikki Haara, Virpi Mäkinen, Alejandra Mancilla, Julia McClure, Ilse Paakkinen, Mikko Posti, Jonathan Robinson, John Salter, Pamela Slotte, and Jussi Varkemaa.

Virpi Mäkinen is Senior Lecturer in Theological and Social Ethics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has published monographs and many articles on medieval and early modern intellectual history, including Property Rights in the Late Medieval Discussion on Franciscan Poverty (Peeters, 2001), and co-edited Transformations in Late Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse (Springer, 2006). Jonathan Robinson, Ph.D. (2010) in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. He currently acts as a lawyer and is the author of William of Ockham’s Theory of Property Rights in Context (Brill, 2012). Pamela Slotte is Associate Professor of Minority Studies at the Åbo Akademi University, Finland. She is the co-author of The Juridification of Religion (Brill, 2017) and co-editor of Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Heikki Haara is Senior Lecturer of Political History at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Pufendorf’s Theory of Sociability: Passions, Habits and Social Order (Springer, 2018).

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Abbreviations



Introduction: Rights and Justice towards the Margins

 Virpi Mäkinen, Jonathan Robinson and Pamela Slotte



PART 1: Rights and the Poor Law

1 Poverty and Need in the Fourteenth Century: Johannes Andreae, Bartolus of Saxoferrato, and Baldus de Ubaldis

 Jonathan Robinson



2 Poor and Insolvent: Debtor Relief in Alvarez de Velasco’s De privilegiis pauperum (1630)

 Wim Decock



PART 2: Rights, Duties and Justice

3 Inclination to Self-Preservation and Rights to Life and Body in Samuel Pufendorf’s Natural Law Theory

 Heikki Haara



4 The Right of Necessity: From Hugo Grotius to Adam Smith

 John Salter



PART 3: Rights Beyond the Margins

5 Rights and Needs: Widows as a Protected Group in Christine de Pizan’s Thought

 Ilse Paakkinen



6 Can Animals Have Rights? Conrad Summenhart and Francisco de Vitoria at the Margins of Rights Language

 Jussi Varkemaa



7 Whether Heretics and Infidels Can Possess Dominion Rights? Late Medieval and Early Modern Debates

 Virpi Mäkinen and Mikko Posti



PART 4: Geopolitical, Global, and Contemporary Perspectives at the Margins

8 The Darker Side of Rights in Global Intellectual History: an Ambivalent Case of Franciscan Poverty

 Julia McClure



9 Necessity Knows No Borders: the Right of Necessity and Illegalized Migration

 Alejandra Mancilla



10 “Rights, Not Charity!” On Vocabularies for Conceptualizing the Case of Persons with Disabilities

 Pamela Slotte



Index of names



Subject Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 316
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 539 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Recht / Steuern Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10 90-04-41677-3 / 9004416773
ISBN-13 978-90-04-41677-2 / 9789004416772
Zustand Neuware
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