From Politics to Reason of State
Subtitle: The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics 12501600 (Ideas in Context)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780521673433
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Politics / Current Events; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Political science--History; Political science--History Political science-; Politics - Current Events
First sentence: Even though the words "politics" and "political" were absent from the documents of popes, kings and feudal lords, the Middle Ages maintained some relics of the classical language of politics.