Medieval Sovereignty

Author : Michael Wilks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 052107018X

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The Problem of Sovereignty in the Later Middle Ages by Michael Wilks Pdf

Sovereignty has always been an important concept in political thought, and at no time in European history was it more important than during the perplexed conditions of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Universal government was a fading dream, giving way to the new conception of the national state and the whole basis of political thought was being reorientated by the influx of Aristotelian ideas. Dr Wilks's book is an attempt to clarify the more important problems in the political outlook of the period. He shows that at this time the theologians and literary writers, especially Augustinus Triumphus of Ancona, had built up a complete theory of sovereignty in favour of the papal monarchy, based on a neo-Platonic, Augustinian view of the church as a universal and totalitarian state.

Author : Andrew Latham
Publisher : Past Imperfect
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1641892943

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Medieval Sovereignty by Andrew Latham Pdf

An exploration of how ideas regarding the source and character of supreme political authority--sovereignty--experienced a crucial period of formative development during the thirteenth century.

Author : Francesco Maiolo
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789059720817

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Medieval Sovereignty by Francesco Maiolo Pdf

Medieval Sovereignty examines the idea of sovereignty in the Middle Ages and asks if it can be considered a fundamental element of medieval constitutional order. Francesco Maiolo analyzes the writings of Marsilius of Padua (1275/80-1342/43) and Bartolous of Saxoferrato (1314-57) and assesses their relative contributions as early proponents of popular sovereignty. Both are credited with having provided the legal justification for medieval popular government. Maiolo's cogent reconsideration of this primacy is an important addition to current medieval studies.

Author : Michael Wilks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:627052834

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The Problem of Sovereignty in the Later Middle Ages by Michael Wilks Pdf

Author : Kathleen Davis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207415

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Periodization and Sovereignty by Kathleen Davis Pdf

Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of "the Middle Ages" and the history of sovereignty, slavery, and colonialism. This book's groundbreaking investigation of feudal historiography finds that the historical formation of "feudalism" mediated the theorization of sovereignty and a social contract, even as it provided a rationale for colonialism and facilitated the disavowal of slavery. Sovereignty is also at the heart of today's often violent struggles over secular and religious politics, and Davis traces the relationship between these struggles and the narrative of "secularization," which grounds itself in a period divide between a "modern" historical consciousness and a theologically entrapped "Middle Ages" incapable of history. This alignment of sovereignty, the secular, and the conceptualization of historical time, which relies essentially upon a medieval/modern divide, both underlies and regulates today's volatile debates over world politics. The problem of defining the limits of our most fundamental political concepts cannot be extricated, Davis argues, from the periodizing operations that constituted them, and that continue today to obscure the process by which "feudalism" and "secularization" govern the politics of time.

Author : Peter N. Riesenberg
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press, 1956 [c1955]
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Political Science
ISBN : MSU:31293017301999

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Inalienability of Sovereignty in Medieval Political Thought by Peter N. Riesenberg Pdf

Author : Robert Stuart Sturges
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 2503533094

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Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Robert Stuart Sturges Pdf

Sovereignty, law, and the relationship between them are now among the most compelling topics in history, philosophy, literature and art. Some argue that the state's power over the individual has never been more complete, while for others, such factors as globalization and the internet are subverting traditional political forms. This book exposes the roots of these arguments in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The thirteen contributions investigate theories, fictions, contestations, and applications of sovereignty and law from the Anglo-Saxon period to the seventeenth century, and from England across western Europe to Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. Particular topics include: Habsburg sovereignty, Romance traditions in Arthurian literature, the duomo in Milan, the political theories of Juan de Mariana and of Richard Hooker, Geoffrey Chaucer's legal problems, the accession of James I, medieval Jewish women, Elizabethan diplomacy, Anglo-Saxon political subjectivity, and medieval French farce. Together these contributions constitute a valuable overview of the history of medieval and Renaissance law and sovereignty in several disciplines. They will appeal to not only to political historians, but also to all those interested in the histories of art, literature, religion, and culture.

Author : Hussein Fancy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226329642

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The Mercenary Mediterranean by Hussein Fancy Pdf

Over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Christian kings of Aragon recruited thousands of foreign Muslim soldiers to serve in their armies and as members of their royal courts. Based on extensive research in Arabic, Latin and Romance sources, 'The Mercenary Mediterranean' explores this little-known and misunderstood history.

Author : Peggy McCracken
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226458922

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In the Skin of a Beast by Peggy McCracken Pdf

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet—whether as friends or foes—issues of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting larger concerns about relations of authority and dominion at play in both human-animal and human-human interactions. Peggy McCracken discusses a range of literary texts and images from medieval France, including romances in which animal skins appear in symbolic displays of power, fictional explorations of the wolf’s desire for human domestication, and tales of women and snakes converging in a representation of territorial claims and noble status. These works reveal that the qualities traditionally used to define sovereignty—lineage and gender among them—are in fact mobile and contingent. In medieval literary texts, as McCracken demonstrates, human dominion over animals is a disputed model for sovereign relations among people: it justifies exploitation even as it mandates protection and care, and it depends on reiterations of human-animal difference that paradoxically expose the tenuous nature of human exceptionalism.

Author : Riesenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:669684831

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Inalienability of Sovereignty in Medieval Political Thought by Riesenberg Pdf

Author : Michael Wilks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:633716970

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The Problem of Sovereignty in the Later Middle Ages by Michael Wilks Pdf

Author : Brett Edward Whalen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812250862

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The Two Powers by Brett Edward Whalen Pdf

Historians commonly designate the High Middle Ages as the era of the "papal monarchy," when the popes of Rome vied with secular rulers for spiritual and temporal supremacy. Indeed, in many ways the story of the papal monarchy encapsulates that of medieval Europe as often remembered: a time before the modern age, when religious authorities openly clashed with emperors, kings, and princes for political mastery of their world, claiming sovereignty over Christendom, the universal community of Christian kingdoms, churches, and peoples. At no point was this conflict more widespread and dramatic than during the papacies of Gregory IX (1227-1241) and Innocent IV (1243-1254). Their struggles with the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II (1212-1250) echoed in the corridors of power and the court of public opinion, ranging from the battlefields of Italy to the streets of Jerusalem. In The Two Powers, Brett Edward Whalen has written a new history of this combative relationship between the thirteenth-century papacy and empire. Countering the dominant trend of modern historiography, which focuses on Frederick instead of the popes, he redirects our attention to the papal side of the historical equation. By doing so, Whalen highlights the ways in which Gregory and Innocent acted politically and publicly, realizing their priestly sovereignty through the networks of communication, performance, and documentary culture that lay at the unique disposal of the Apostolic See. Covering pivotal decades that included the last major crusades, the birth of the Inquisition, and the unexpected invasion of the Mongols, The Two Powers shows how Gregory and Innocent's battles with Frederick shaped the historical destiny of the thirteenth-century papacy and its role in the public realm of medieval Christendom.

Author : Christopher Markiewicz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108492140

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The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam by Christopher Markiewicz Pdf

Explores how a new conception of kingship helped transform the Ottoman Empire, from regional dynastic sultanate to global empire.

Author : Peggy McCracken
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226459080

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In the Skin of a Beast by Peggy McCracken Pdf

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet—whether as friends or foes—issues of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting larger concerns about relations of authority and dominion at play in both human-animal and human-human interactions. Peggy McCracken discusses a range of literary texts and images from medieval France, including romances in which animal skins appear in symbolic displays of power, fictional explorations of the wolf’s desire for human domestication, and tales of women and snakes converging in a representation of territorial claims and noble status. These works reveal that the qualities traditionally used to define sovereignty—lineage and gender among them—are in fact mobile and contingent. In medieval literary texts, as McCracken demonstrates, human dominion over animals is a disputed model for sovereign relations among people: it justifies exploitation even as it mandates protection and care, and it depends on reiterations of human-animal difference that paradoxically expose the tenuous nature of human exceptionalism.

Author : Kenneth Pennington
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520913035

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The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600 by Kenneth Pennington Pdf

The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government. In this masterful history of monarchy, conceptions of law, and due process, Kenneth Pennington addresses that struggle and opens an entirely new vista in the study of Western legal tradition. Pennington investigates legal interpretations of the monarch's power from the twelfth to the seventeenth century. Then, tracing the evolution of defendants' rights, he demonstrates that the origins of due process are not rooted in English common law as is generally assumed. It was not a sturdy Anglo-Saxon, but, most probably, a French jurist of the late thirteenth century who wrote, "A man is innocent until proven guilty." This is the first book to examine in detail the origins of our concept of due process. It also reveals a fascinating paradox: while a theory of individual rights was evolving, so, too, was the concept of the prince's "absolute power." Pennington illuminates this paradox with a clarity that will greatly interest students of political theory as well as legal historians.