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The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300–1650)

By Francis , Oakley

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN
9780300194432, 0300194439, 9780300213799, 0300213794
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2063644 bytes)
Pages
440\434
Time added
2020-11-29 04:15:56
Politics;History

Description

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.

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