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The mortgage of the past : reshaping the ancient political inheritance (1050-1300)

Title
The mortgage of the past : reshaping the ancient political inheritance (1050-1300) / Francis Oakley.
Author
Oakley, Francis.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.

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Description
xv, 327 p.; 24 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift, in memory of Payne Whitney.
Series Statement
  • The emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages ; v. 2
  • Oakley, Francis. Emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages ; v. 2.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue: kingship and its changing profile in the central Middle Ages -- Historical orientation: the flowering of medieval Europe -- The Christian commonwealth (i): regnum vs. sacerdotium -- the struggle for control -- Recuperating the past (i): nature and chronology of the process -- Recuperating the past (ii): the encounter with Christian and Roman antiquity -- Recuperating the past (iii): fruits of the encounter with Greek antiquity -- Proto-constitutionalist innovation: the roots of consent theory and the emergence of representative institutions -- Priestly kings and royal popes: the resilience of regal sacrality -- The Christian commonwealth : disintegration.
Call Number
JFE 12-4877
ISBN
  • 9780300176339 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0300176333 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011046339
OCLC
759174136
Author
Oakley, Francis.
Title
The mortgage of the past : reshaping the ancient political inheritance (1050-1300) / Francis Oakley.
Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.
Series
The emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages ; v. 2
Oakley, Francis. Emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages ; v. 2.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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