Natural Rights and Politics in Early Modern Europe

Marc Belissa is Emeritus Maître de Conférences and Research Director at Paris Nanterre University, France. He has written numerous books and articles on the eighteenth century and the French Revolution. Yannick Bosc is Maître de Conférences at the University of Rouen Normandy in France. He is Researcher at the laboratory GRHis, in Rouen, and also at the laboratory GREECS, in Spain.Suzanne Levin is Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Turin Humanities Programme (Fondazione 1563) in Italy, where she specialises in the socio-cultural history of politics in the eighteenth century. Interested in the complex relationship between ideas and politics, she has studied the role of republicanism and natural rights in the French Revolution.

• Chapter 1: The Arbitrary Nature of Authority: The Case of Pietrino Belli.- Chapter 2: Between Natural Law and Human Rights? The Transliteration of Jus Gentium in Renaissance Jurisprudence.- Chapter 3: Rediscovering the Talmud’s Legal Tradition: Jewish Sources in the Natural Law Discourse of John Selden and Hugo Grotius.- Chapter 4: ‘La defensa es permitida según derecho natural y humano’: Natural Rights, or the Jesuits’ Best Assets in their Armed Defense of the Province of Paraguay (1609-1641).- Chapter 5: Natural Limitations to the Rights of Kings. The Case of Denmark-Norway (1648-1670).- Chapter 6: Property: A Natural Right of Resistance.- Chapter 7: When Liberty of Conscience was Not Yet a Particular Natural Right: An Instance with Pierre Bayle’s Toleration.- Chapter 8: The Missing Revolution: The Claim for Women’s Rights in the Eighteenth Century.- Chapter 9: Natural Human Rights against the Ideologues’ Republicanism?.- Chapter 10: Human Rights and Political Struggle: The Cisalpine Republic (1796-1799).- Chapter 11: Conclusion - Yannick Bosc & Marc Belissa.