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  • Law and Jurisdiction in the Middle Ages

    by Walter Ullmann, George Garnett ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Walter Ullmann's contribution to the study of medieval political and legal thought needs no emphasis. In the present volume are collected a number of the early articles which it was not possible to include in his previous collections, together with others published since those volumes appeared. The articles display a striking consistency of approach, though in the more than forty years separating ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship (Routledge Revivals)

    by Walter Ullmann ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Walter Ullmann on Medieval Political Theory
    In his Birkbeck Lectures, first published in 1969, Professor Ullmann throws new light on a familiar subject. He shows that the Carolingian renaissance had a wider and deeper meaning than has often been thought, especially in its political and ideological aspects. Displaying his mastery of both primary and secondary sources, Professor Ullmann presents an integrated history. He shows an epoch which ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Medieval Idea of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna (Routledge Revivals)

    by Walter Ullmann ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Walter Ullmann on Medieval Political Theory
    Upon its original publication in 1946, this work represented a new approach to medieval studies, offering indispensable analysis to the historian of legal, political and social ideas. Research into the original sources leads the author through unexplored realms of medieval thought. By contrasting contemporary opinions with those of his central figure, Lucas de Penna, he comprehensively presents ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages

    by Walter Ullmann ...
    Originally published in 1966. The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages, based on three guest lectures given at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, explores the place of the individual in medieval European society. Looking at legal sources and political ideology of the era, Ullmann concludes that, for most of the Middle Ages, the individual was defined as a subject rather than a citizen, but the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

    by Walter Ullmann ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Walter Ullmann on Medieval Political Theory
    In many respects this book, first published in 1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from contemporary historical writings. It is neither a constitutional nor a political history, but a historical definition and explanation of the main features which characterised the three kinds of government which can be discerned in the Middle Ages – government by the Pope, the King, the People. The author ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages

    by Walter Ullmann ...
    This classic text outlines the development of the Papacy as an institution in the Middle Ages. With profound knowledge, insight and sophistication, Walter Ullmann traces the course of papal history from the late Roman Empire to its eventual decline in the Renaissance.The focus of this survey is on the institution and the idea of papacy rather than individual figures, recognizing the shaping power ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Medieval Papalism (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 36)

    by Walter Ullmann ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Political Science
    This volume deals with the problem of State and Church in the Middle Ages from a new angle. It not only shows how and why the medieval popes pursued a policy of world domination, but also discloses the ideas by which the papal monarchs were primarily influenced. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Growth of Papal Government in the Middle Ages (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 35)

    by Walter Ullmann ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Political Science
    This book reveals how the medieval papacy grew from modest beginnings into an impressive institution in the Middle Ages and deals with a wide field. It charts the history of the papacy and its relations to East and West from the 4th to the 12th centuries, embraces such varied subjects as law, finance, diplomacy, liturgy, and theology. The development of medieval symbolism is also discussed as are ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • A History of Medieval Political Thought

    300–1450

    by Joseph Canning ...
    First Published in 2005. The book covers four periods, each with a different focus. From 300 to 750 Canning examines Christian ideas of rulership. The often neglected centuries from 750 to 1050, the Carolingian period and its aftermath, are given special attention. From 1050 to 1290 the conflict between temporal and spiritual power and the revived legacy of antiquity comes to the fore. Finally in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Justice of Constantine

    Law, Communication, and Control

    by John Dillon ...
    Series series Law And Society In The Ancient World
    As the first Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine the Great has long interested those studying the establishment of Christianity. But Constantine is also notable for his ability to control a sprawling empire and effect major changes. The Justice of Constantineexamines Constantine's judicial and administrative legislation and his efforts to maintain control over the imperial bureaucracy, to ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life

    The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages

    by John Van Engen ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the east-central Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they formed households organized as communes and forged lives centered on private devotion. They lived on city streets alongside their neighbors, managed properties and rents in common, and worked in the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book ... Read more

    $18.09 USD