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

Author/creator Oakley, Francis
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press,
Descriptionxv, 327 p. ; 25 cm.
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SeriesThe emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages ; v. 2
Contents Prologue: kingship and its changing profile in the central Middle Ages -- Historical orientation: the flowering of medieval Europe -- The Christian commonwealth (i): regnum vs. sacerdotium--the struggle for control -- Recuperating the past (i): nature and chronology of the process -- Recuperating the past (ii): the encounter with Christian and Roman antiquity -- Recuperating the past (iii): fruits of the encounter with Greek antiquity -- Proto-constitutionalist innovation: the roots of consent theory and the emergence of representative institutions -- Priestly kings and royal popes: the resilience of regal sacrality -- The Christian commonwealth : disintegration.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2011046339
ISBN9780300176339 (cloth : alk. paper)

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