Franklin T. Harkins and Aaron Canty, eds., A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages (Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 73). Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2017. Pp. xiii, 482; 12 black-and-white figures and 3 diagrams. $258. ISBN: 978-90-04-32443-5.Table of contents available online at https://brill.com/abstract/title/20075

Speculum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-538
Author(s):  
Paul M. Blowers
Author(s):  
Mathias Schmoeckel

Abstract Leges fundamentals: Laws Higher than Others? Their Development from the Concept to the Term. This article investigates the tradition of laws with a higher, central authority, which can be found in the Christian tradition from the Middle Ages to the 16th century, when the Calvinist party finally coined the term “loi fondamentale”. The contrast to other national discussions shows the different starting points and contents of a notion, which rapidly became a common European heritage and merged with the equally new concept of “constitution”.


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