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

By J. H. Burns

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0521423880, 9780521423885
Open Library ID
OL7740295M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
47 MB (48766002 bytes)
Series
The Cambridge History of Political Thought
Pages
786\786
Topic
History
Time added
2010-10-03 22:52:24
Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История

Description

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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