The idea of natural law, which has ancient roots in the Stoic philosophical heritage and in the Roman legal tradition, is the subject of a large and complex process of elaboration which starts in the end of the 11th century and goes up to the age of the great scholastic authors.

A study of how physicians and philosophers at the end of the Renaissance developed Galen's philosophical legacy and in doing so moved beyond accepted patterns and conventions in their reading of classical medical text.

This volume aims at taking the first steps towards a revaluation of urban historiography in Northwest Europe, including rather than excluding texts that do not fit common definitions.