Rights at the Margins

Virpi Mäkinen is Senior Lecturer in Theological and Social Ethics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has published monographs and many articles on medieval and early modern intellectual history, including Property Rights in the Late Medieval Discussion on Franciscan Poverty (Peeters, 2001), and co-edited Transformations in Late Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse (Springer, 2006). Jonathan Robinson, Ph.D. (2010) in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. He currently acts as a lawyer and is the author of William of Ockham’s Theory of Property Rights in Context (Brill, 2012). Pamela Slotte is Associate Professor of Minority Studies at the Åbo Akademi University, Finland. She is the co-author of The Juridification of Religion (Brill, 2017) and co-editor of Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Heikki Haara is Senior Lecturer of Political History at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Pufendorf’s Theory of Sociability: Passions, Habits and Social Order (Springer, 2018).

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Introduction: Rights and Justice towards the Margins

 Virpi Mäkinen, Jonathan Robinson and Pamela Slotte



PART 1: Rights and the Poor Law

1 Poverty and Need in the Fourteenth Century: Johannes Andreae, Bartolus of Saxoferrato, and Baldus de Ubaldis

 Jonathan Robinson



2 Poor and Insolvent: Debtor Relief in Alvarez de Velasco’s De privilegiis pauperum (1630)

 Wim Decock



PART 2: Rights, Duties and Justice

3 Inclination to Self-Preservation and Rights to Life and Body in Samuel Pufendorf’s Natural Law Theory

 Heikki Haara



4 The Right of Necessity: From Hugo Grotius to Adam Smith

 John Salter



PART 3: Rights Beyond the Margins

5 Rights and Needs: Widows as a Protected Group in Christine de Pizan’s Thought

 Ilse Paakkinen



6 Can Animals Have Rights? Conrad Summenhart and Francisco de Vitoria at the Margins of Rights Language

 Jussi Varkemaa



7 Whether Heretics and Infidels Can Possess Dominion Rights? Late Medieval and Early Modern Debates

 Virpi Mäkinen and Mikko Posti



PART 4: Geopolitical, Global, and Contemporary Perspectives at the Margins

8 The Darker Side of Rights in Global Intellectual History: an Ambivalent Case of Franciscan Poverty

 Julia McClure



9 Necessity Knows No Borders: the Right of Necessity and Illegalized Migration

 Alejandra Mancilla



10 “Rights, Not Charity!” On Vocabularies for Conceptualizing the Case of Persons with Disabilities

 Pamela Slotte



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Subject Index