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LEGAL HUMANISM - Coggle Diagram
LEGAL HUMANISM
most important legal humanists
Andrea Alciato
Jacques Cujas
exceptional mastery of roman law and philology
Guillame Budé
Ulrich Zasius
Francois Hotman
Antitribonianus, critics to medieval studies of law
Humanist approach to law
rediscovery of ancient culture and the basic sources of Roman law
mastery of law
acquisition of basic information
study of universal history
use of historical methids
practice of philological methods
underline the incorrect interpretation of medieval studies of roman law
Andrea Alciato
founder of the humanist school
Humanism
study of antiquity
italian renaissance
rejection of the absolute authority of the text canon
creation of the human mind
it did not contain the timeless/complete truth
Renaissance
studia humanitatis
it included the study of logic, grammar, natural and moral philospphy
re-orientated away from the methods of the medieval scholars
it attacked the highly artificial logic of medieval scholasticism
greater methods of reasoning
use of context
methapors, analogies, examples
new understanding of history
medieval scholars viewed the ancient laws as their source of CURRENT truth(logical interpretation)
the humanists wanted to understand the ancient sources as a historical legacy(historical and philological
Lorenzo Valla
first manifestation of legal humanism
critics to the medieval jurists
Positive reults of legal humanisn
the errors of commentators/glossators have been corrected
precise and correct knowledge of the ancient world