The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and

The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300–1650) (The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages)

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.
Country USA
Brand Yale University Press
Manufacturer Yale University Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2015-09-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780274751976

The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300–1650) (The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages)