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Full Title

Canon Law, the Expansion of Europe, and World Order 1st Edition

Author(s)

James Muldoon

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781040242674, 9780860786856, 9781003556497, 9781040235645

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The articles in this volume trace the development of the theory that humanity forms a single world community and that there exists a body of law governing the relations among the members of that community. These ideas first appeared in the writings of the medieval canon lawyers and received their fullest development in the writings of early modern Spanish intellectuals. Conflict and contact with ’the infidel’ provided a stimulus for the elaboration of these ideas in the later Middle Ages, but major impetus was given by the English subjugation of Ireland, and by the discovery of the Americas. This body of work paved the way for the modern notions of an international legal order and universal norms of behavior usually associated with the publication of Hugo Grotius’s work in the seventeenth century.