LH0460 Legal Humanism
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This podcast introduces Humanism, an intellectual movement focused on the reconstruction of classical literature, and presents its most relevant figures of this age, such as Lorenzo Valla, Angelo Poliziano and Andrea Alciato. Subsequently, it explains how legal humanists turned Roman law into a model.
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On the differences between the two streams of the German Historical School: the Pandectists and the Germanists. The example of possession: the Roman concept and Albrecht's German alternative to it, the Gewere.
Published 02/10/22
The other stream of the Historical School: the Germanists and their focus on ancient German law. The parallel between the search for original legal ideas and the one for German literature: the task of the brothers Grimm. The importance of community in German tradition.
Published 02/10/22