In this broad-ranging new study, Alan Harding challenges the orthodoxy that there was no state in the Middle Ages, arguing instead that it was precisely then th

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This book offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' highly influential doctrine of natural law and natural rights.

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