Thomas Erastus and the Palatinate

Thomas Erastus and the Palatinate
Author: Charles Gunnoe
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2010-10-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004215069

This study is the first monograph to attempt a synthetic treatment of the career of Thomas Erastus (1524-1583). Erastus was a central player in the conversion of the Electoral Palatinate to Reformed Christianity in the early 1560s and a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism. In the church discipline controversy of the 1560s and 1570s, Erastus opposed the Calvinist effort to institute a consistory of elders with independent authority over excommunication. Erastus’s defeat in this controversy, and the ensuing Antitrinitarian affair, proved the watershed of his career. He turned to the refutation of Paracelsus and a debate with Johann Weyer on the punishment of witches. The epilogue tracks Erastus’s later career and the reception of his works into the seventeenth century.

To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth

To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Author: Martti Koskenniemi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1127
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1009038206

To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth shows the vital role played by legal imagination in the formation of the international order during 1300–1870. It discusses how European statehood arose during early modernity as a locally specific combination of ideas about sovereign power and property rights, and how those ideas expanded to structure the formation of European empires and consolidate modern international relations. By connecting the development of legal thinking with the history of political thought and by showing the gradual rise of economic analysis into predominance, the author argues that legal ideas from different European legal systems - Spanish, French, English and German - have played a prominent role in the history of global power. This history has emerged in imaginative ways to combine public and private power, sovereignty and property. The book will appeal to readers crossing conventional limits between international law, international relations, history of political thought, jurisprudence and legal history.

The Diary of Robert Woodford, 1637-1641

The Diary of Robert Woodford, 1637-1641
Author: Robert Woodford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107036380

Robert Woodford's diary, here published for the first time with an introduction, provides a unique source for the mid-seventeenth century.