How were human rights made? It answers two questions: when does human life historically begin from the legal point of view? And how has the Law understood human life historically? Ricardo Rabinovich begins to answer these questions in the first volume of this work, and continues with the second volume The Construction of Freedoms. The High Middle Ages, (...), these pages do not evade the great debates about medieval chronology, about the conception of the Middle Ages, or about its mythology and its meaning. It would have to be said that some of the sources cited have a very long tradition of studies and analysis, but now what will matter will not be so much the questions of chronology, authorization or the entity of the validity of these sources; The study of these sources will now serve to treat and study how the Law contemplated human life, the diverse existences in which men were grouped at that time in old Europe. An enormously cosmopolitan book that crosses languages, regions, seas, legends, deeds, battles, towns, dreams, defeats. So, at the end of the reading, I felt the fatigue of a long journey, the exhaustion of the journey, a last page that gave me respite, and a kind of hidden smile that announced to me that soon this Odysseus would return with a new ship, with a new book that it would be impossible not to enlist.