Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Note IX
4. Contents XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Jurisprudence. From Exegesis of the Roman Law to a Comparative Method
7. I. The Roman Law and Medieval Jurisprudence 7
8. II. The Humanist Reforms of Method and the Beginning of a Critical Perspective 18
9. III. The Attack on the Authority of Roman Law 36
10. IV. Jean Bodin and the Comparative Approach to Universal Jurisprudence 59
11. Part II. History. The Beginning of a Theory of Criticism
12. V. The Emergence of an Art of Reading History 83
13. VI. The Challenge of Historical Pyrrhonism 89
14. VII. Melchior Cano: The Foundations of Historical Belief 103
15. VIII. François Baudouin: The Types of Sources and the Tests of Authenticity 116
16. IX. Jean Bodin: The Rules for Testing Historical Assertions 137
17. Bibliography 155
18. Index 161