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Primary Literature

Hemmingsen, Niels, De methodis libri duo, quorum prior quidem omnium methodorum universalium et particularium, quarum usus est in philosophia brevem ac dilucidam declarationem: posterior vero ecclesiasten sive methodum theologicam interpretandi, Concionandique continet.

Hemmingsen, Niels, Om Naturens Lov, trans. by Richard Mott, 3 vols. K0benhavn: 0resund, 1991.

Hemmingsen, Niels, On the law of nature: a demonstrative method, trans. and ed. By E. J. Hutchinson, Grand Rapids, Michigan: clp Academic, 2018.

Hemmingsen, Niels, Opuscula theologica, in unum volumen collecta, & per classes digesta: additis variis indicibus, notis, & praefationibus necessariis. Genevae: Excudebat Eustathius Vignon, 1586.

Melanchthon, Philipp, Loci communes theologici recens collecti & recogniti. Straβburg: Johann Albrecht, 1536.

Melanchthon, Philipp, Philosophiae moralis epitomae libri duo emendati & aucti. Strassburg: Kraft Muller, 1540.

Melanchthon, Philipp, Philosophiae moralis epitome, Philippo Melanchthone autore, Nunquam antea excusa. Straβburg: Muller, Kraft, 1538.

Vitoria, Francisco de, Political Writings, ed. by Anthony Pagden and Jeremy Lawrance. Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Secondary Literature

Dansk biografsk Lexikon tillige omfattende Norgefor Tidsrummet 1537-1814, ed. by Carl Frederik Bricka, Kj0benhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1887.

Estes, James M., Peace, Order, and the Glory of God: Secular Authority and the Church in the Thought of Luther andMelanchthon, 1518-1559. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Estes, James M., �The Role of Godly Magistrates in the Church: Melanchthon as Luther’s Interpreter and Collaborator’, Church History, 67 (1998), pp. 463-83.

Frank, Gunter, �The Reason of Acting: Melanchthon’s Concept of Practical Philosophy and the Question of the Unity and Consistency of His Philosophy’, in Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity, ed.

Grane, Leif, �Melanchthons pragender Einfluss auf die Reformation in den skandina- vischen Landern’, in Melanchthon und Europa: Skandinavien und Mittelosteuropa, ed. by Gunter Frank, Kees Meerhoff, and Martin Treu, Melanchthon-Schriften der Stadt Bretten. Stuttgart: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2001. pp. 11-26.

Hunter, Ian, Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Hunter, Ian. �The University Philosopher in Early Modern Germany’, in The Philosopher in EarlyModern Europe: The Nature ofa ContestedIdentity, edited by Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger, and Ian Hunter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 35-65.

Hutchinson, E. J., �Divine Law, Naturally: Lex Naturae and the Decalogue in Two Works of Niels Hemmingsen’, in For Law andfor Liberty: Essays on the Trans-Atlantic Legacy of Protestant Political Thought, ed. by W. Bradford Littlejohn. Davenant Press, 2016. pp. 1-19.

Hutchinson, E. J., �Introduction. Niels Hemmingsen (1513-1600) and the Development of Lutheran Natural-Law Teaching', Journal of Markets & Morality, 17 (2015), pp. 595-617. Jensen, Mads Langballe, A Humanist in Reformation Politics: Philipp Melanchthon on Political Philosophy and Natural Law. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Jensen, Mads Langballe, �Contests about Natural Law in Early Enlightenment Copenhagen'. History of European Ideas, 42/ 8 (16 November 2016): 1027-41.

Jensen, Mads Langballe, �Libertas Philosophandi and Natural Law in Early Eighteenth Century Denmark-Norway'. Intellectual History Review, 30/ 2 (2020): 209-31.

Kaltenborn, Carl von, Die Vorlaufer des Hugo Grotius auf dem Gebiete des Ius Naturae et Gentium sowie derPolitik im Reformationszeitalter. Leipzig: G. Mayer, 1848.

Kaufmann, Thomas, �Freedom and Apocalyptic Thinking in Early Modern Lutheranism', in Freedom and the Construction of Europe, ed.

Scattola, Merio, Das Naturrecht vor dem Naturrecht: zur Geschichte des 'ius naturae’ im 16. Jahrhundert. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1999.

Schneider, Hans-Peter, Justitia universalis: Quellenstudien zur Geschichte des 'Christlichen Naturrechts' bei Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1967.

Schorn-Schutte, Luise, �Kommunikation uber Herrschaft: Obrigkeitskritik im 16. Jahrhundert', in Ideen als gesellschaftliche Gestaltungskraft im Europa der Neuzeit: Beitrage fur eine erneuerte Geistesgeschichte, ed. by Lutz Raphael and Heinz-Elmar Tenorth (Munchen: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006), pp. 71-108.

Schorn-Schutte, Luise, �Obrigkeitskritik und Widerstandsrecht. Die politica christiana als Legitimitatsgrundlage', in Aspekte der politischen Kommunikation im Europa des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Politische Theologie, Res Publica, Verstandnis, konsensgestutzte Herrschaft, ed. by Luise Schorn-Schutte. Munchen: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2004.

Schwarz Lausten, Martin, Niels Hemmingsen: storhed og fald. K0benhavn: Anis, 2013.

Skat Sommer, Mattias Skat, �Niels Hemmingsen and the Construction of a Seventeenth­Century Protestant Memory', Journal of Early Modern Christianity, 4 (2017), pp. 135-160.

Skat Sommer, Mattias, Envisioning the Christian Society. Niels Hemmingsen (1513-1600) and the Ordering of Sixteenth- Century Denmark. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020.

Stiening, Gideon, �Notitiae principiorum practicorum: Melanchthons Rechtslehre zwischen Machiavelli und Vitoria', in Der Philosoph Melanchthon, ed. by Gunter Frank and Felix Mundt. Walter de Gruyter, 2012. pp. 115-46.

Weiss, Matthias, weltliche hendel werden geistlich.“ Zur politica christiana des 16. Jahrhunderts', in Ideen als gesellschaftliche Gestaltungskraft im Europa der Neuzeit: Beitrage fur eine erneuerte Geistesgeschichte, ed. by Lutz Raphael and Heinz-Elmar Tenorth. Munchen: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006. pp. 109-24.

Witte, John, Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.