The Idea Of Natural Rights: Studies On Natural Rights, Natural Law And Church Law 1150-1625 (emory University Studies In Law And Religion, No. 5)

". . . a compelling historical account of natural rights. . . .That Tierney brings to his historical task a thorough acquaintance with major contemporary theories of moral and legal rights gives his work additional value for ethicists." - Religious Studies Review ". . . a tour de force of integration and learning. . . . It is a synthesis that will become the required starting point in all future efforts to write about the history of rights." - Studia canonica Origins. Villey, Ockham and the origin of individual rights ; Origins of natural rights language : texts and contexts, 1150-1250 ; Rights and duties : a quaestio of Henry of Ghent -- Ockham and the Franciscans. The beginning of the dispute ; Languages of rights ; Property, natural right, and the state of nature ; William of Ockham : rights and some problems of political thought -- From Gerson to Grotius. Gerson, conciliarism, corporatism, and individualism ; Almain, Mair, Summenhart ; Aristotle and the American Indians ; Rights, community, and sovereignty ; Grotius : from medieval to modern