This major addition to Ideas in Context examines the development of natural law theories in the early stages of the Enlightenment in Germany and France. T. J. H

This collection offers a timely opportunity to re-examine both the coherence of the concept of an ‘early Enlightenment’, and the specific contribution of na

This book looks at the development of the idea of toleration into something like its modern shape in the early enlightenment period and its consequences on the

Essays on the political 'languages' of natural law, classical republicanism, commerce and political science.

European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a hi