📗 Libro en inglés PEACE TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL LAW IN EUROPEAN HISTORY : FROM T HE LATE MIDDLE AGES TO WORLD WAR ONE

In the formation of the modern law of nations, peace treaties played a pivotal role. Many basic principles and rules that governed and still govern relations between states were introduced and elaborated in the great peace treaties from the Renaissance onwards. Nevertheless, until recently few scholars have studied these primary sources of the law of nations from a juridical perspective. In this edited collection, specialists from all over Europe, including legal and diplomatic historians, international lawyers and an International Relations theorist, analyse peace treaty practice from the ...