HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Johannes Althusius, Glossator, Political Class
6 Dec 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Humanist jurists (e. g. budaeus; zasius) rid themselves of glosses and commentaries as they obscured view of original corpus of which they aimed to reconstruct the original meaning. Andreas alciato (1492 1550): founder of the mos gallicus movement (humanist method) Centre of legal humanism: university of bourges, where alciatus began teaching in 1529 (succeeded by jacques cujas) Alciatus" main work: annotationes in tres libros codicis (1513) # Bourges was a centre of the huguenots, with most legal humanists there being members of this sect. 16th century: persecution of the huguenots caused many major humanists to flee to protestant university of leiden founded in 1575. Efforts to strip corpus of works of glossators and commentators gave. Humanists access to works of great roman jurists of 2nd / 3rd centuries attempts at reconstruction of old texts (incl. Abandonment of idea of universal applicability of roman law.
