Diodorus Tuldenus (1594-1645) and the Development of Public Law and Natural Law in the Habsbourg Low Countries KU Leuven
This PhD research proposal will look at the works and life of a legal scholar active at the university of Leuven in the early 17th century, Diodorus Tuldenus (c. 1590-1645). This time period was marked by warfare and economic malaise for the Spanish Low Countries. Despite this, it was also an era of academic innovation. Legal scholarship was marked by a number of closely related evolutions, such as the development of natural law thought and ...