A dozen articles published over the past three decades explore such topics as the canonists and the legitimacy of secular power, the contribution of the Medieva

The articles in this volume trace the development of the theory that humanity forms a single world community and that there exists a body of law governing the r

Published in 1998, these essays focus on Rome and the curia in the 11th and 12th centuries. Several relate to Cardinal Deusdedit and his canonical collection (1

Is war an institution of international society and how is it constituted as such across the evolution of international society? This book is an inquiry into the

A philosophical and historical analysis of the idea of world community from the late Middle Ages to the present.