The mortgage of the past
Subtitle: reshaping the ancient political inheritance (1050-1300)
By: Francis Oakley
Series: The emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages -- v. 2
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780300176339
Subjects: Church and state; Kings and rulers; Political science; Middle Ages; History
Description: Oakley continues his three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this volume. Here, Oakley explores kingship from the tenth century to the beginning of the 14th, showing how, under the stresses of religious and cultural development, kingship became a secular institution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: kingship and its changing profile in the central Middle Ages; title: Historical orientation: the flowering of medieval Europe; title: The Christian commonwealth (i): regnum vs. sacerdotium; title: the struggle for control; title: Recuperating the past (i): nature and chronology of the process; title: Recuperating the past (ii): the encounter with Christian and Roman antiquity; title: Recuperating the past (iii): fruits of the encounter with Greek antiquity; title: Proto-constitutionalist innovation: the roots of consent theory and the emergence of representative institutions; title: Priestly kings and royal popes: the resilience of regal sacrality; title: The Christian commonwealth : disintegration.