Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages
Author | : Walter Ullmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Principles And Politics In The Middle Ages full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Principles And Politics In The Middle Ages ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Walter Ullmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Walter Ullmann |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2010-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136999280 |
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’s enviable knowledge of the sources – clerical, secular, legal, constitutional, liturgical, literary – as well as of modern literature enables him to demonstrate the principles upon which the papal government, the royal government, and the government of the people rested. He shows how the traditional theocratic forms of government came to be supplanted by forms of government based on the will of the people. Although concerned with the Middle Ages, the book also contains much that is of topical interest to the discerning student of modern institutions. Medieval history is made understandable to modern man by modern methods.
Author | : Walter Ullmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Walter Ullmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-10-13 |
Genre | : Constitutional history, Medieval |
ISBN | : 9780415578516 |
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’s enviable knowledge of the sources – clerical, secular, legal, constitutional, liturgical, literary – as well as of modern literature enables him to demonstrate the principles upon which the papal government, the royal government, and the government of the people rested. He shows how the traditional theocratic forms of government came to be supplanted by forms of government based on the will of the people. Although concerned with the Middle Ages, the book also contains much that is of topical interest to the discerning student of modern institutions. Medieval history is made understandable to modern man by modern methods.
Author | : Edward Jenks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Civilization, Medieval |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hwa-Yong Lee |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820495316 |
This book explores the theory of political representation as articulated by the fourteenth-century Italian thinker, Marsilius. It combines historical research on Marsilius with an analysis of the contemporary theory of representative democracy. Modern theorization of political representation identifies the relation between the represented and the representative as a central theme. In order to assess how a representative system can reasonably be expected to operate for the benefit of the whole people, political representation must be understood through a comprehensive conception of the political process as a whole. To this end, Marsilius provides us with a perspective from which to examine the philosophical foundations of political representation and to reconsider the nature and significance of political representation - that is, an understanding of political representation in terms of the transfer of power. This book suggests that in modern democratic societies where the people effectively cease to be a political agent and their formal authority becomes increasingly notional, Marsilius' conception of political representation, which rejects the depoliticisation and deauthorisation of ordinary citizens, has much to offer. It can, in principle, offer a coherent alternative approach to building political representation as an effective scheme of public action for all.
Author | : James M. Blythe |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400862604 |
Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Political writers in the early modern period applied this idea to government in England, Venice, and Florence, and Americans used it in designing their constitution. In this history of political thought James Blythe investigates what happened to the concept of mixed constitution during the Middle Ages, when the work of the Greek historian Polybius, the source of many of the formal elements of early modern theory, was unknown in Latin. Although it is generally argued that Renaissance and early modern theories of mixed constitution derived from the revival of classical Polybian models, Blythe demonstrates the pervasiveness of such ideas in high and late medieval thought. The author traces medieval Aristotelian theories concerning the best form of government and concludes that most endorsed a limited monarchy sharing many features with the mixed constitution. He also shows that the major early modern ideas of mixed constitutionalism stemmed from medieval and Aristotelian thought, which partially explains the enthusiastic reception of Polybius in the sixteenth century. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Walter Ullmann |
Publisher | : Variorum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |