Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050) (The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages)
Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume in the series. Here, Oakley explores kingship from the tenth century to the beginning of the fourteenth, showing how, under the stresses of religious and cultural development, kingship became an inceasingly secular institution.
“A masterpiece and the central part of a trilogy that will be a true masterwork.â€â€”Jeffrey Burton Russell, University of California, Santa Barbara
Country | USA |
Brand | Yale University Press |
Manufacturer | Yale University Press |
Binding | Hardcover |
UnitCount | 1 |
EANs | 9780300176339 |
ReleaseDate | 0000-00-00 |