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This books highlights the impact of Christianity on the history of law and societal policies in the Low Countries.
List 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.
About the author
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 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.
Summary
This book highlights the impact of Christianity on the history of law and society in the Lowlands. The diversity of Protestant and Catholic jurists' engagements with the organization of society in the Southern and Northern Netherlands over a period of thousand years is examined from a multi-disciplinary and trans-confessional perspective.
