Readings in Medieval Political Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Readings in Medieval Political Theory write by Cary J. Nederman. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Readings in Medieval Political Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A useful collection of sources, now reprinted, which document and commentate on the formation of medieval political culture between the 12th and 14th centuries. Aimed at a non-specialist readership fifteen texts are presented in English translation and in chronological order supported by suggestions for further reading. These include letters and treatises by Bernard of Clairvaux, Marie de France, John of Salisbury, Thomas Aquinas, John of Paris, Dante Alighieri, William of Ockham, John Wyclif and Christine de Pizan.
Medieval Political Theory: A Reader
Medieval Political Theory: A Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Political Theory: A Reader write by Kate Langdon Forhan. This book was released on 2013-07-23. Medieval Political Theory: A Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A textbook anthology of important works of political thought revealing the development of ideas from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Includes new translations of both well-known and ignored writers, and an introductory overview.
Medieval Political Ideas (Routledge Revivals)
Medieval Political Ideas (Routledge Revivals) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Political Ideas (Routledge Revivals) write by Ewart Lewis. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Medieval Political Ideas (Routledge Revivals) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1954, this book explores the political ideas of the Middle Ages. It covers the period from the investiture struggle to the end of the fifteenth century and provides comprehensive readings of otherwise inaccessible source material. Each chapter begins with an introductory essay on the subject at hand that leads to a number of translated passages, numerous enough to display a variety of opinion and long enough to indicate the process of thought as well as its conclusions. This book is the second of a two volume set and will be useful to teachers and advanced students of political theory and medieval history. Topics discussed in this volume include authority in the Church, the problem of the Empire and the relationship between the Church and the State.
Readings in Classical Political Thought
Readings in Classical Political Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Readings in Classical Political Thought write by Peter J. Steinberger. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Readings in Classical Political Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Designed to include all of the texts from Presocratics through Machiavelli likely to be read in an undergraduate course on classical political thought, this anthology has at its core generous selections from Plato and Aristotle. Building on this core is a sufficiently diverse and substantial selection of texts from other writers--including Thucydides and the Sophists--to allow for inquiry into the variety of Classical Greek approaches to politics, as well as into Roman, Medieval and Renaissance developments of the classical tradition. Preeminent translations and the editor's own thoughtful introductions further distinguish this unique anthology.
The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought
The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought write by M. S. Kempshall. This book was released on 1999. The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study offers a major reinterpretation of medieval political thought by examining one of its most fundamental ideas. If it was axiomatic that the goal of human society should be the common good, then this notion presented at least two conceptual alternatives. Did it embody the highest moral ideals of happiness and the life of virtue, or did it represent the more pragmatic benefits of peace and material security? Political thinkers from Thomas Aquinas to William of Ockham answered thisquestion in various contexts. In theoretical terms, they were reacting to the rediscovery of Aristotle's Politics and Ethics, an event often seen as pivotal in the history of political thought. On a practical level, they were faced with pressing concerns over the exercise of both temporal and ecclesiastical authority - resistance to royal taxation and opposition to the jurisdiction of the pope. In establishing the connections between these different contexts, The Common Good questions the identification of Aristotle as the primary catalyst for the emergence of 'the individual' and a 'secular' theory of the state. Through a detailed exposition of scholastic political theology, it argues that the roots of any such developments should be traced, instead, to Augustine and the Bible.
