Download or read book Conrad Summenhart's Theory of Individual Rights written by Jussi Varkemaa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide a detailed and systematic account of Conrad Summenhart’s (1455-1502) language of individual rights. This study analyses Summenhart’s theory in its historical context treating it as a culmination of late medieval discourse on individual rights, particularly useful to those interested in the origin of human rights language, modern political individualism, and late medieval and early modern political and moral philosophy.