Mathias Schmoeckel
Das Recht der Reformation
Die epistemologische Revolution der Wissenschaft und die Spaltung der Rechtsordnung in der Frühen Neuzeit
[The Law of the Reformation. The Epistemological Revolution of Academia and the Legal Order in the Early Modern Age.]
2014. XVIII, 311 pages. Published in German.
- cloth
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- 978-3-16-152868-2
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The new epistemology of the reformers created a fundamentally new approach taken by jurisprudence in general as well as substantial innovations in all fields of the law. In place of the Pope as Christ's representative there was a new legal order in which everyone was to have the freedom to live by their faith.