The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 3, The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Andrew Fitzmaurice is Professor of the History of Political Thought in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Humanism and America: An Intellectual History of American Colonisation, 1500–1625 (2003); Sovereignty, Property, and Empire 1500–2000 (2014); and King Leopold's Ghostwriter (2021). Rachel Hammersley is Professor of Intellectual History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University. She is the author of French Revolutionaries and English Republicans: The Cordelier Club, 1790-1794 (2004); The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France (2010); James Harrington: An Intellectual Biography (2019) and Republicanism: An Introduction (2020).

• Introduction Andrew Fitzmaurice and Rachel Hammersley; 1. Roman law: the science of right Daniel Lee; 2. Natural rights Mads Langballe Jensen; 3. Historic rights in sixteenth-century France Sophie Nicholls; 4. Common law rights Alan Cromartie; 5. The rights of states to self-preservation Simone Zurbuchen; 6. The Right of natural persons to self-preservation Rosemarie Wagner; 7. Divine right in early modern political thought Cesare Cuttica; 8. The right to punish Signey Gutnick Allen; 9. The rights of war and peace Peter Schröder; 10. The right of navigation: claiming and challenging the free sea in theory and practice Arthur Westeijn; 11. The right to trade, 1500 –1700 Mark Somos; 12. The right to property Andrew Fitzmaurice; 13. Fair trials in law: imagining the rights of the accused Paul D. Halliday; 14. Freedom of religion Stefania Tutino; 15. The right of resistance Kajo Kubala; 16. The Right to Political participation and representation Markku Peltonen; 17. Rights and power in early modern feminism Hannah Dawson; 18. Gender and rights Anna Becker; 19. The rights of women Sharon Achinstein; 20. The rights of the insane Angus Gowland; 21. The rights of asylum Gaby Mahlberg; 22. The rights of peoples in Spain and its empire Tamar Herzog; 23. The rights of people in the English empire Ken Macmillan; 24. Rights in the seventeenth-century French empire Saliha Belmessous; 25. Rights, authority, and autonomy: the VOC in seventeenth century Southeast Asia Peter Borschberg.