Justice among Nations. A History of International Law - Stephen C. Neff

48 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) arising out of the ius gentium. In this respect, the ius gentium clearly had a stron ...

Doing Justice to Others 49 guished from Rome’s own civil (or national) law. Th is divergence between Chinese and Roman ways prov ...

chapter two Keeping Kings in Check A remarkable scene took place in the city of Lyon, in France, on July 17, 1245. A council of ...

Keeping Kings in Check 51 Moreover, Innocent was well aware that his pronouncement would not be self- executing. Without the sup ...

52 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) in de pen dent sovereign states. Far from deploring the juridical poverty of our med ...

Keeping Kings in Check 53 than either church or empire. In its role as the foundation of international law, its consequences are ...

54 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) kingdoms, on this thesis, possessed merely de facto power, which they had somehow wr ...

Keeping Kings in Check 55 Th e Papacy In the Roman Catholic papacy, the Eu ro pe an Middle Ages possessed some- thing that the w ...

56 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) kingdom of France under an interdict in 1200, the Duchy of Normandy in 1203, and the ...

Keeping Kings in Check 57 performed the most dramatic deposition of all— that of Frederick II in 1245 at the Council of Lyon— al ...

58 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) Henry IV and the king of Sicily (who was a feudal dependent of the pope). His succes ...

Keeping Kings in Check 59 ing in his personal capacity as an individual and not as the incumbent of the Holy See. It is appare ...

60 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) that other societies were to be evaluated according to how nearly they con- formed t ...

Keeping Kings in Check 61 A New Natural Law Th e new natural- law perspective that arose in the high Middle Ages does not have a ...

62 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) between po liti cal entities. It was primarily about the conduct of ordinary persons ...

Keeping Kings in Check 63 kingdom, and the ius gentium to the human portion of it, was no longer ten- able. In the rationalist s ...

64 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) Arian variant of Christianity to the Catholic one. Th e universal reach of his knowl ...

Keeping Kings in Check 65 of course, to be in the sphere of international law. Perhaps Isidore could be the patron saint of that ...

66 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) period of inactivity, the ius gentium would step in to fi ll the gap. Th e ius gen- ...

Keeping Kings in Check 67 the two bodies of law were seen to deal with the same subject matters. Th e two theories diff ered on ...