The book describes in a retrospective way how dignity and human rights evolved. In doing so, the book is divided in three parts: human rights from present to early modern age, human dignity from present to Early modern age and dignity and human rights from present to future. The book has been written in a way that might me appealing to graduate students, postgraduate students, researchers and even laymen who are interested in the making of dignity and human rights in the Western.

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Aniceto Masferrer is a Professor of Legal History and teaches legal history and comparative law at the Faculty of Law, University of Valencia, Spain He has been a Visiting Fellow or Professor at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (2000-2003), the University of Cambridge (2005), Harvard Law School (2006-2007), Melbourne Law School (2008), the University of Tasmania (2010), Louisiana State University - The Paul M. Hebert Law Center - (2013), George Washington University Law School and at the École Normale Supérieure - Paris (2015). He has lectured at universities around the world (France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Malta, Israel, UK, Sweden, Norway, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand).