Book Reviews : Annuaire Français de Droit International, 1955. By the GROUPE FRANÇAIS DES ANCIENS AUDITEURS DE L'ACADEMIE DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL DE LA HAYE. (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Pp. xv, 835. 2,400 francs.)

• Author: Minos D. Generales
• Date: 01 September 1958
• Published date: 01 September 1958
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295801100335
• Subject Matter: Articles

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book.

This

translation

is

exemplary

and

without

doubt

will

be

recognized

as

the

standard

English

edition

of

this

Marsilian

text.

The

evidence

of

discriminating

and

meticulous

scholarship

is

present

throughout.

Thus

his

critical

attention

to

earlier,

partial

translations

assures

that

the

new

edition

benefits

from

as

well

as

adds

to

the

corpus

of

Marsilian

studies.

Or

again,

in

order

to

assure

accurate

sense

renderings,

he

has

been

systematically

con-

cerned

with

the

changing

content

of

terms

not

only

as

between

the

four-

teenth

and

twentieth

centuries

but

also

as

Aristotelian,

Roman,

and

early

Christian

usages

influenced

the

writings

of

Marsilius.

Moreover,

the

style

.

of

the

resulting

translation

is

vigorous,

attractive,

and

wholly

clear.

The

author’s

Introduction

is

a

model

combination

of

critical

scholarship

and

effective

pedagogy.

Marsilius

created

a

doctrine

of

unusual

complexity

in

order

to

deal

with

the

issues

of

his

own

time.

Treatment

of

this

doctrine

is

further

complicated

by

later

developments,

both

those

associated

with

Marsilius

himself

(e.g.,

his

proscription

by

the

Church)

and

those

which

extrapolated

the

concepts

he

used

into

new

limits.

Professor

Gewirth

re-

duces

these

complexities

to

understanding

by

systematic

explication

of

the

argument

of

the

book,

by

providing

interpretative

themes

which

resolve

,

many

of

the

contradictions

of

which

Marsilius

has

been

accused,

and

by

setting

the

conclusions

of

the

Defensor

Pacis

in

the

faurteenth-century

con-

text

of

understandings

about

religion

and

politics.

On

the

other

hand,

modern

issues

are

not

forgotten

in

this

analysis,

and,

without

distortion

of

either

set

of

issues,

the

discussion

of

the

major

Marsilian

themes

effectively

relates

the

text

to

modern,

and

recent,

politics.

In

short,

this

book

is

a

very

able

and

valuable

contribution

to

the

litera-

ure

of

political

theory.

University

of

California,

Los

Angeles.

THOMAS

P.

JENKIN.

Annuaire

Français

de

Droit

International,

1955.

By

the

GROUPE

FRANÇAIS

DES

ANCIENS

AUDITEURS

DE

L’ACADEMIE

DE

DROIT

INTERNATIONAL

DE

LA

HAYE.

(Paris:

Centre

National

de

la

Recherche

Scientifique.

Pp.

xv,

835.

2,400

francs.)

The

publication

of

a

French

Year

Book

of

International

Law

must

be

welcomed

as

an

important

contribution

to

the

literature

of

international

law

by

a

group

of

scholars

whose

school

has

made

many

outstanding

contribu-

tions

to

the

field

over

the

last

two

generations.

It

is

published

under

the

auspices

of

a

group

of

French

alumni

of

the

Hague

Academy

of

Inter-

national

Law

and

is

sponsored

by

the

&dquo;National

Center

for

Scientific

Re-

search.&dquo;

Since

every

French

international

lawyer

of

note

has

attended

the

Hague

Academy

at

one

time

or

other

since

its

inception,

the

patronage

of

this

new

publication

is

a

most

distinguished

one.

Its

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