The mortgage of the past [[electronic resource] ] : reshaping the ancient political inheritance (1050-1300) / / Francis Oakley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461768403321
• Autore: Oakley Francis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-280-57168-3; 1-280-57170-5; 9786613601308; 9786613601285; 0-300-17633-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 327 p.).)
• Collana: The emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages ; ; v. 2
• Disciplina: 321/.609409022
• Soggetti: Kings and rulers - History - To 1500; Church and state - Europe - History - To 1500; Political science - Europe - History - To 1500; Middle Ages; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Kingship and its Changing Profile in the Central Middle Ages -- 1. Historical Orientation: The Flowering of Medieval Europe -- 2. The Christian Commonwealth (I): Regnum vs. Sacerdotium-the Struggle for Control -- 3. Recuperating the Past (i): Nature and Chronology of the Process -- 4. Recuperating the Past (ii): The Encounter with Christian and Roman Antiquity -- 5. Recuperating the Past (iii): Fruits of the Encounter with Greek Antiquity -- 6. Proto-Constitutionalist Innovation: The Roots of Consent Theory and the Emergence of Representative Institutions -- 7. Priestly Kings and Royal Popes: The Resilience of Regal Sacrality -- 8. The Christian Commonwealth (ii): Disintegration -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the ; emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume in the series. Here, Oakley explores kingship from the tenth century to the beginning of the fourteenth, showing how, under the stresses of religious and cultural development, kingship became an inceasingly secular institution."A masterpiece and the central part of a trilogy that will be a true masterwork."-Jeffrey Burton Russell, University of California, Santa Barbara