Jensen, Mads Langballe

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The Saxo Institute
University of Copenhagen
madslangballe@gmail.com

Research interests
Early modern natural law, Natural law in early eighteenth century Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, Enlightenment political thought, Reformation and post-Reformation intellectual history.
 

Projects
Natural law in Denmark 1690-1750: The History of an Enlightenment

Natural Law and the ideological legitimation of Danish colonialism


Selected bibliography concerning Natural law

  • Books

A Humanist in Reformation Politics: Philipp Melanchthon on Political Philosophy and Natural Law (Leiden: Brill, 2019). Link

  • Articles and Chapters

"Libertas philosophandi and natural law in early eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway" in Intellectual History Review, DOI: 10.1080/17496977.2019.1643601.

"Natural law and natural rights in early enlightenment Copenhagen" in Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law, ed. Ian Hunter & Richard Whatmore (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

"Serving Danish Foreign Policy: Professor Hojer’s 1735 De eo quod iure belli licet in minores" in The Law of Nations and Natural Law, 1625-1850, ed. Simone Zurbuchen (Brill, 2019).

"Contests about natural law in early enlightenment Copenhagen" in History of European Ideas vol. 42, no. 8 (2016).

"By convention or by nature – Melanchthon's criticism of late medieval Ockhamist political thought in the Commentarii in aliquot politicos libros Aristotelis" in History of Political Thought, vol. 35, no. 1 (2014).

"Ulydighed og modstand mod øvrigheden i tidlig luthersk politisk tænkning" [Disobedience and resistance  against  political  authority  in  early  Lutheran  political  thought] in Kritik 199 (2011), p. 121-128.