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Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)

By Francis Oakley

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0300155387, 9780300155389
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2043206 bytes)
Series
The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages
Pages
320\0
Time added
2017-09-28 20:14:53
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Description

In this book—the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought—Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late Roman antiquity and of the early European middle ages. By challenging the popular belief that the ancient Greek and Roman worlds provided the origins of our inherently secular politics, Oakley revises our understanding of the history of political theory in a fundamental and far-reaching manner that will reverberate for decades. This book lays the foundations for Oakley's next two volumes, which will develop his argument that it is in the Latin middle ages that we must seek the ideological roots of modern political secularism.

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