[Published] French Translation of Erasmus's Institutio principis Christiani

La Formation du prince chrétien / Institutio principis christiani


Publication of a French translation of Erasmus's Institutio principis Christiani (Lovanii, 1516) celebrate the quincentenary of the original Latin work.

• Erasme, La formation du prince chrétien, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015

Translated by Mario Turchetti, Emeritus Professor at University of Fribourg, the Formation du prince chrétien allows us to penetrate into the humanist's political thought.


* Another French translation of the work is expected to be published in April 2016 (Education du prince chrétien, Paris: Les Belles Lettres).
** It may be interesting to compare the Dutch humanist's thought with a contemporary French humanist's treatise on the same topic: Guillaume Budé, De l'institution du prince (1547).

Call for Research Projects

Appel à projets de recherche 2017-2021


Ecole française de Rome has announced a call for research projects related to law and religion for the period of 2017-2021.

Click here to see the announcement in French.

A New Magna Carta for the Early Modern Common Law

A NEW MAGNA CARTA FOR THE EARLY MODERN COMMON LAW: AN 800TH ANNIVERSARY ESSAY

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A new article of John Witte, Jr., Professor of Law at Emory University, on Magna Carta in Common Law tradition will be published soon in the newest issue of Journal of Law and Religion.

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Abstract

This article examines the influence of the Magna Carta on the development of rights and liberties in the Anglo-American common law tradition, especially in the seventeenth century. Originally issued by King John of England in 1215, the Magna Carta set forth numerous prototypical rights and liberties that helped to shape subsequent legal developments in England, America, and the broader Commonwealth. The Magna Carta served as an inspiration for seventeenth-century English jurists, like Sir Edward Coke, and Puritan pamphleteers, like John Lilburne, who advocated sweeping new rights reforms on the strength of the charter. It also inspired more directly the new bills of rights and liberties of several American colonies, most notably the expansive 1641 Body of Liberties of Massachusetts crafted by Nathaniel Ward, which anticipated many of the constitutional rights formulations of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America.