Zimmermann, Michel Keywords: Middle Ages | International law | Legal history | Mots clefs: Moyen Age | Droit international | Histoire du droit | ABSTRACT For the majority of internationalists of the second half of the XIXth century and at the beginning of the XXth century, there is no doubt that the law of nations did not exist in the Middle Ages and that it made its appearance only after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, writes Michel Zimmermann. On the contrary, for the great French writers of the first half of the XIXth century, it was contestable that a very developed international l…

Quidde, Ludwig Keywords: Germany | Middle Ages | Peace | Mots clefs: Allemagne | Moyen-âge | Paix | ABSTRACT The aim of Ludwig Quidde’s course is to describe a development not taken place in the field of international law but in the field of German Constitutional Law. But this development offers very curious and very interesting analogies with the development of international law issues. The first part of the course focuses on the period from the primitive times to the end of the Carolingians (Germanic law, migrat…