Transformations in Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mäkinen, Virpi (Editor), Korkman, Petter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy ; 59
• Subjects: Political science.; History.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Human rights.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Human Rights.; History, general.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

Rights language is a fundamental feature of the modern world. Virtually all significant social and political struggles are waged, and have been waged for over a century now, in terms of rights claims. In some ways, it is precisely the birth of modern rights language that ushers in modernity in terms...