CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: CIVIC REPUBLICANISM AND RENAISSANCE LIBERTY -- 1. Italy: Fourteenth-century Political and Legal Developments -- 2. Bartolus of Sassoferrato -- 3. Baldus de Ubaldis -- 4. Fifteenth-century Humanist Political Thought -- 5. Sixteenth-century Humanist Political Thought -- PART TWO: CONSTITUTIONALISM IN THE CHURCH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. John of Paris -- 3. Conciliar Thought in the Fourteenth Century -- Joannes Monachus -- Guilielmus Durantis -- The Academic Canonists -- 4. Conciliarism at the Time of the Great Schism and Basle -- Pierre d'Ailly -- Jean Gerson -- Franciscus Zabarella -- Nicholas of Cusa -- 5. Conciliarism after Basle -- Introduction -- John Major -- Jacques Almain -- 6. Conciliarism Secularized: George Buchanan -- PART THREE: CONSENT AND LIMIT IN SPANISH NEO-SCHOLASTICISM -- 1. Spanish Scholasticism -- 2. Cardinal Cajetan (Tommaso de Vio) -- 3. Alonzo de Castrillo -- 4. Juan Luis Vives -- 5. Francisco de Vitoria -- 6. Juan de Mariana -- 7. Francesco Suárez -- PART FOUR: EMERGING RIGHTS AS A BASIS FOR RESISTING AUTHORITY: REFORMATION POLITICAL THOUGHT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Martin Luther -- 3. John Calvin -- 4. Theodore Beza -- 5. Peter Martyr Vermigli -- 6. François Hotman: The Francogallia -- 7. Mornay: The Vindiciae contra tyrannos -- 8. Richard Hooker -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.