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Hotman had been invited to teach at Oxford, but
spoke lightly of Littleton and Coke, who wished to preserve
the Common Law (Maitland, 1985, p. 13). He was a Calvinist,
but quarrelled with Calvin, who accused him of changing his
religion six times (p. 56). He brought Conde in touch with
Elizabeth I of England. In England Wyclif was of the opinion
that English persons did not need to learn the law of the
Emperor, and that civil law, that is, Roman Law, is "heathen
and does not have the form of the Gospel, as though the Gospel
were not as good" (p. 54).
The renaissance of Roman law during the sixteenth
century contained the notion of imperium. which was
substituted for the notion of personal authority, and made the
concept of sovereignty abstract and objective. The State
would become sovereign (Brimo, p. 115). Since the fourteenth
century there had been as well an effort to support the
hegemony of the King of France as Dominus mundi (Yates, 1983,
p. 304).
The renaissance of Roman civil law occurred before
the Reformation, and the Reformation weakened the relationship
of the State with religion. Luther and his disciples believed
that politics could only be approached from the point of view
of the relationship between Church and State, and had only a
sporadic relationship to historical events. The Byzantine law
maintained a very close relationship between civil law and
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