The Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300)
Francis Oakley
Abstract
The author of this book continues his three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume in the series. Here, he 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 increasingly secular institution.
Keywords: Western political thought, Middle Ages, kingship, tenth century, cultural development, secular institution, three-part history, fourteenth century, religious development, stresses
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300176339 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300176339.001.0001 |
