BOOK: Harald E. BRAUN, Erik DE BOM & Paolo ASTORRI (eds.), A Companion to The Spanish Scholastics [Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition; 102, ed. Christopher M. BELLITTO] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2022), 614 p. ISBN 978-90-04-29441-7, € 229

 

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Book abstract:

The Companion to the Spanish Scholastics offers a much-needed survey of the entire field of early modern Spanish scholastic thought. The volume introduces main themes and contexts of scholastics inquiry (Theology, Philosophy, Ethics, Politics, Economics, Law, Science and the Senses) through close examination of a wide range of texts, debates, methods, and authors, as well as in-depth discussion of the relevant literature. Chapters include a useful bibliography and serve as point of departure for future research. The volume not only draws the sum of existing research, but challenges established notions and breaks new ground. Contributors are Fernanda Alfieri, Harald Braun, Paolo Broggio, Alejandro Chafuen, Wim Decock, Fernando Domínguez Reboiras, Thomas Duve, Petr Dvořák, Giovanni Gellera, Juan Manuel Gómez Paris, Christophe Grellard, Miroslav Hanke, Ruth Hill, Harro Höpfl, Nils Jansen, Vincenzo Lavenia, Thomas Marschler, Fabio Monsalve, Thomas Pink, Rudolf Schüssler, Daniel Schwartz, Leen Spruit, Toon Van Houdt, María José Vega, and Andreas Wagner.

 On the editors:

Harald Ernst Braun, D.Phil. Oxon. (2001), is Reader in European History (1300-1700) at the University of Liverpool. He has published widely on early modern Catholic, especially Spanish political thought and culture. Erik De Bom, Ph.D. (2009), KU Leuven, is Research Fellow at that university. He has published on the history of political thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, early-modern intellectual history and Renaissance humanism. Paolo Astorri, Ph.D. (2018), KU Leuven, is Postdoctoral Researcher in Legal History at the University of Copenhagen, Centre for Privacy Studies. His book Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720), published in Brill’s new series Law and Religion in Early Modern Period, won the RefoRc book award in 2020.

Table of contents:

 

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

part 1

 Introduction
   Harald E. Braun

part 2
Contexts
1 Theology
   Christophe Grellard

2 Managing Dissent
   María José Vega

3 Law
   Thomas Duve

part 3
Theology
4 Grace
   Paolo Broggio

5 Divine Attributes
   Thomas Marschler

6 Biblical Criticism
   Fernando Domínguez Reboiras

part 4
Philosophy
7 Logic
   Petr Dvořák and Miroslav Hanke

8 Natural Philosophy
   Giovanni Gellera

9 Psychology
   Leen Spruit

part 5
Ethics
10 Final Causation in Jesuit Thought Finality and Nature and Normative Power
   Thomas Pink

11 Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Spanish Scholastic Thought
   Fernanda Alfieri

12 Probabilism and Casuistry
   Rudolf Schüssler

part 6
Politics
13 Church and State
   Harro Höpfl

14  Jus Post Bellum in the Spanish Scholastics Statism and Individualism
   Daniel Schwartz

part 7
Economics
15 Usury and Interest
   Toon van Houdt and Fabio Monsalve

16 Just Pricing
   Alejandro Chafuen

17 Taxation
   Vincenzo Lavenia

part 8
Law
18 Between Cosmopolitan Citizens and Sovereign Nations International Law According to the Spanish Scholastics
   Andreas Wagner

19 Contract Law in Early Modern Scholasticism
   Wim Decock

20 The Doctrine of Restitution ( Restitutio)
   Nils Jansen

part 9
Science and the Senses
21 Scholastics and Novatores
   Juan Manuel Gómez Paris

22 The New World and the Problem of Race
   Ruth Hill

Read more on the publisher's website (DOI  10.1163/9789004296961).