Mortgage of the Past: Political Inheritance 1050–1300 torrent

The Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance, 1050–1300 - Francis Oakley [epub]

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 increasingly secular institution.

Francis Oakley is President Emeritus and Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas at Williams College.

Series: The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages (Book 2)
Hardcover: 344 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (April 24, 2012)