Pre-1600: Government and Law: Publications

Jean Bodin, On Sovereignty: Four Chapters from the Six Books of the Commonwealth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)—selections from Bodin’s 1576 work on international law, Six Livres de la Republique;

Mary T. Clark, An Aquinas Reader (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988)—includes Thomas Aquinas’s discussion of natural law and Christianity;

John Dillenberger, ed., John Calvin: Selections from His Writings (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1971);

Dillenberger, ed., Martin Luther: Selections from His Writings (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1961);

D. C. Douglas and G. W. Greenway, eds., English Historical Documents, 10 volumes (London: Oxford University Press, 1953; reprinted, London: Routledge, 1996)—a multivolume collection that chronicles the development of English political and legal institutions;

Richard Eden, The First Three English Books on America, edited by Edward Arber (New York: Kraus Reprint, 1971)—in the second half of the sixteenth century Eden collected and published excerpts from the writings of Amerigo Vespucci, Fernández de Oviedo, Martire, and other early commentators on America;

B. G. Kohl and R. G. Witt, eds., The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978)—a collection of Renaissance writings on politics;

Niccoló Machiavelli, The Prince (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997)—the classic statement of Renaissance politics;

Michel de Montaigne, Essays, translated by J. M. Cohen (New York: Penguin, 1993)—Montaigne’s essays urged skepticism toward and toleration from government;

Thomas More, Utopia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)— Utopia included justifications for the taking of Indian land;

James Muldoon, ed., The Expansion of Europe: The First Phase (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977)—Muldoon’s work contains some of the writings of Pope Innocent IV;

E. G. R. Taylor, ed., The Original Writings and Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts, 2 volumes (London: Hakluyt Society, 1935)—writings of the sixteenth-century English advocate of American colonization;

Lewis G. M. Thorpe, ed., Two Lives of Charlemagne (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1983)—translation of the chronicles by Einhard and Notker the Stammerer;

Brian Tierney, The Crisis of Church and State, 1050–1300 (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964)—includes a collection of primary source documents;

Francisco de Vitoria, De indis et de iure belli relectiones (Buffalo: William S. Hein, 1995)—the Spanish legal philosopher’s law of nations;

H. R. Wagner and Henry Raup Parish, eds., The Life and Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1967)—contains excerpts from the Dominican critic of Spanish policy in the Americas.