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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462244703321

Autore

Greenaway James

Titolo

The differentiation of authority [[electronic resource] ] : the medieval turn toward existence / / James Greenaway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : Catholic University of America Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8132-1957-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Disciplina

303.3/6

Soggetti

Power (Social sciences) - History - To 1500

Authority - History - To 1500

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The medieval political order to 1150 -- The emergence of the individual -- Constitutionality and existence in medieval England -- Crisis and closure 1: the isolation of the sovereign individual -- Crisis and closure 2: the submergence of existence -- Continental problems in political order -- The medieval papacy and the overreach of authority -- Toward the future -- Concluding remarks: the contemporary west, islam, and the equilibrium of authorities.