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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811624403321

Autore

Oakley Francis

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-57168-3

1-280-57170-5

9786613601308

9786613601285

0-300-17633-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

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