Bartolus and the Development of European Political Ideas

There are two names which must be well known to anyone who has glanced at the margins of works on law and politics produced in Continental countries, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With St. Augustine quoted by writers like Althusius more than anyone else, with Innocent IV the ‘dominus canonistarum,’ the master of the Decretalists, a man never to be ignored in the history of thought, there stand out the great twin luminaries of Perugia, Bartolus and Baldus, his pupil, friend, and adversary. They are pre-eminent among the forgotten. Grotius and Gentilis and Bodin not merely quote Bartolus, but are what they are largely because of him. Pages might be filled with the epithets of laudation from time to time applied to him. He is the mirror and lamp of the law, his name is not so much that of a man as the very spirit of jurisprudence. Some say that he is the sole authority superior to the Roman Rota, while in Spain if there is a defect of law, the opinion of Bartolus is treated as itself decisive

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