The Watershed Of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, And Consent (1300–1650) (the Emergence Of Western Political Thought In The Latin Middle Ages)
by Francis Oakley /
2015 / English / EPUB
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The concluding volume of Francis Oakley's authoritative trilogy
moves on to engage the political thinkers of the later Middle
Ages, Renaissance, Age of Reformation and religious wars, and the
era that produced the Divine Right Theory of Kingship. Oakley's
ground-breaking study probes the continuities and discontinuities
between medieval and early modern modes of political thinking and
dwells at length on the roots and nature of those contract
theories that sought to legitimate political authority by
grounding it in the consent of the governed.
The concluding volume of Francis Oakley's authoritative trilogy
moves on to engage the political thinkers of the later Middle
Ages, Renaissance, Age of Reformation and religious wars, and the
era that produced the Divine Right Theory of Kingship. Oakley's
ground-breaking study probes the continuities and discontinuities
between medieval and early modern modes of political thinking and
dwells at length on the roots and nature of those contract
theories that sought to legitimate political authority by
grounding it in the consent of the governed.
