Theologians and Contract Law : The Moral Transformation of the Ius Commune (ca. 1500-1650)

The Roman legal tradition is the ancestor of modern contract law but there is no agreement as to how and when a general law of contract emerged. Wim Decock's thesis is that an important step in this evolution was taken by theologians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They transformed the R...

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