Preface A Note on Names and Book Titles List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction, John W Cairns Part I: Defining Legal Humanism 1. Antiqui et Recentiores: Alberico Gentili - Beyond Mos Italicus and Legal Humanism, Alain Wijffels 2. Humanist Philology and the Text of Justinian's Digest, Douglas J Osler Part II: A Break With the Past/Contemporary Critiques 3. Deconstructing Iurisdictio: The Adventures of a Legal Category in the Hands of the Humanist Jurists, Guido Rossi 4. Reassessing the Influence of Medieval Jurisprudence on Jacques Cujas' (1522-1590) Method, Xavier Prévost 5. Redefining Ius to Restore Justice: The Centrality of Ius Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence, Susan Longfield Karr Part III: Legal Humanism - A Pan-European Methodology 6. Elegant Scholastic Humanism? Arias Piñel's (1515-1563) Critical Revision of Laesio Enormis, Wim Decock 7. The Working Methods of Hugo Grotius: Which Sources Did He Use and How Did He Use Them in His Early Writings on Natural Law Theory?, Martine J van Ittersum 8.

Joannes Leunclavius (1541-1594), Civilian and Byzantinist?, Bernard Stolte 9. Brissonius in Context: De formulis et solennibus populi Romani verbis, Éva Jakab 10. A Lawyer and His Sources: Nicolas Bohier and Legal Practice in Sixteenth-Century France, Jasmin Hepburn 11. Humanism and Law in Elizabethan England: The Annotations of Gabriel Harvey, David Ibbetson Part IV: Legal Humanism and the Book Trade 12. The Thesauruses of Otto and Meerman as Publishing Enterprises: Legal Humanism in its Last Phase, 1725-1780, Ian Maclean 13. Humanist Books and Lawyers' Libraries in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Charles Areskine of Alva's Library, Karen G Baston Postscript, Paul J du Plessis Index.