The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350-c.1450 (The Cambridge History of Political Thought) - Softcover

Burns, J. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521423880 ISBN 13: 9780521423885

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than one thousand years. A work of both synthesis and assessment, The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought presents the results of several decades of critical scholarship in the field, and reflects in its breadth of enquiry precisely that diversity of focus that characterized the medieval sense of the "political," preoccupied with universality at some levels, and with almost minute particularity at others. Among the vital questions explored by the distinguished team of contributors are the nature of authority, of justice, of property; the problem of legitimacy, of allegiance, of resistance to the powers that be; the character and functions of law, and the role of custom in maintaining a social structure.

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Book Description:

Reflecting the diversity of focus that characterized the medieval sense of the "political," this volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of complex and varied ideas over a significant time span.

Review:

"...the book successfully brings together a rich and varied synthesis of current scholarship on medieval political ideas. It furnishes a benchmark by which subsequent work on these topics will inevitably be measured." James A. Brundage, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0521423880
• ISBN 13: 9780521423885
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 818