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Record Nr.

UNINA9910725984303321

Autore

Salter Alexander William

Titolo

The Medieval Constitution of Liberty : Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

0-472-90335-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

YoungAndrew T

Disciplina

320.51094

Soggetti

Liberalism - Europe - History

Nation-state - History

Constitutional history - Europe

History

Electronic books.

Europe Holy Roman Empire

Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. The Historical Backdrop -- Part 2. The Medieval Constitution: Theory and History -- Part 3. The Medieval Institutions of Liberty -- Part 4. The Rise of the Nation-State.

Sommario/riassunto

Salter and Young point to the constitutional order that characterized the High Middle Ages. They provide a historical account of how this constitutional order evolved following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. This account runs from the settlements of militarized Germanic elites within the imperial frontiers, to the host of successor kingdoms in the sixth and seventh centuries, and through the short lived Carolingian empire of the late eighth and ninth centuries and the so called feudal anarchy that followed its demise.