Empty bottles of gentilism
Subtitle: kingship and the divine in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (to 1050)
By: Francis Oakley
Series: The emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages -- v. 1; Emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages -- v. 1
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780300155389
Description: "In this book, Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late Roman antiquity and of the early European Middle Ages. By challenging the popular belief that the ancient Greek and Roman worlds provided the origins of our inherently secular politics, Oakley revises our understanding of the history of political theory in a fundamental and far-reaching manner that will reverberate for decades. This book lays the foundations for Oakley's next two volumes, which will develop his argument that it is in the Latin Middle Ages that we must seek the ideological roots of modern political secularism."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologomenon: the cosmic kingship in Mediterranean antiquity. Historical orientation: Hellenic, Hellenistic, Hebraic, and roman antiquity ; Ancient affections: the archaic pattern of royal sacrality and the Hellenistic legacy ; Abrahamic departures: the Hebraic and Christian contribution; title: The long twilight of the sacral kingship in Greek and Latin Christendom (c. 300-c.1050). Historical orientation: the heirs of Rome ; Patristic affirmation: the Greek fathers and the Eusebian tradition in Christian Rome, Byzantium, and Russia ; Patristic reservation: the Latin fathers from Tertullain to Augustine ; The early Medieval west (i): sacral kingship in the Germanic successor kingdoms ; The early Medieval west (ii): fidelity, consent, and the emergence of "feudal" institutions; title: The early Medieval west (iii): the clerical order and the rise of the papal monarchy.