Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries (Law and Christianity) Hardcover – October 07, 2021 by Wim Decock

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Author: Decock Wim

Edition: New

Package Dimensions: 0x0x788

Number Of Pages: 350

Release Date: 23-12-2021

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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.

Book Description

This books highlights the impact of Christianity on the history of law and societal policies in the Low Countries.

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.