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Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists

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Report No. t081

Johannes Corasius

1512–1572

 

Alternative Names

Jean de Coras

 

Biography/Description

J. was a well-known French Protestant jurist and parlementaire of Toulouse. He figures prominently in, and his account is the source of, Natalie Davis’s The Return of Martin Guerre (Cambridge [MA] 1983). His production, however, is much larger than that, and has been the subject of 12-volume treatment by A. London Fell. J. was a victim of the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in 1572.

Source: J. Poumarède, in DHJF 264–266.

Entry by: CD/DC v.2017

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Text(s)

 
No. 01

De iuris arte liber, quatuor partibus conclusus.

 
No. 02

Tractatus de inventario.

 

Text(s) – Early Printed Editions

No. 01

De iuris arte liber, quatuor partibus conclusus.

 
Early Printed Editions

Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 1.59ra.

 
No. 02

Tractatus de inventario.

 
Early Printed Editions

Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 8.2.165ra.