Some Aspects of Jean Gerson’s Legal Influence in Sixteenth Century England: The Issue of Epikeia
Abstract
The present study focuses on one aspect of Jean Gerson’s (1363–1429) judicial influence in England: the development of the concept of equity or epikeia. By analysing particularities of Gerson’s interpretation of epikeia, the study examines the reasons why his take on equity attracted attention in the socio-political context of 16th century England. It also explores distinctions between various understandings of equity, which was gradually introduced into common law under Thomas More’s chancellorship and thanks to Christopher St. German’s writings. Making the reference to today’s interest in the concept of equity, article aims to serve as a link between scholarship and contemporary political and judicial thinking.
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- Frontmatter
- Music, Rhetoric, and the Edification of the Church in the Reformation: The Humanist Reconstruction of Modulata Recitatio
- The Polish Brethren versus the Hutterites: A Sacred Community?
- Some Aspects of Jean Gerson’s Legal Influence in Sixteenth Century England: The Issue of Epikeia
- A Dowry, Will, and Blended Family of Calvin’s Geneva Put Anne Colladon, to the Test
- The Civil Magistrates of Geneva and the Placement of Pastors in France on the Eve of the First War of Religion (1562)
- The Muses in Mourning: Identity and Classicism in Calvinist Heidelberg
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