Just Property: A History in the Latin West. Volume One: Wealth, Virtue, and the Law
Christopher Pierson
Abstract
The first volume of this book explores the idea of legitimate property since ancient times. Beginning with the work of Plato and Aristotle, it traces the evolution of thinking about the origins and the grounding of (private) property in the Latin West. It shows the cumulative impact of the ancient Greeks and the Stoics, the Roman Law, the early Christian Fathers and the belief in natural law. It traces the development of these ideas through the medieval period (from Augustine to Wycliffe). In the early modern period, it assesses the impact of thinking in the Reformation and the Counter-reforma ... More
Keywords: property, roman law, christianity, natural law, ancient, medieval, early modern
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199673285 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2013 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199673285.001.0001 |
