Les juristes en épistoliers

Abstract

The study of two hundred and eighty-three letters addressed to Joseph-Juste Scaliger shows the extent of the humanist’s legal network and the active contribution of forty-nine jurists to the Republic of Letters. This encyclopedic contribution is based on philology as a central knowledge, in line with Scaliger’s interests. As for law, its place – without being negligible – remains peripheral in this correspondence, while varying according to the regularity of the legal practice of each letter writer.

Keywords

• Encyclopedism
• Humanism
• philology
• Renaissance
• network