Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296-1417

by Joseph Canning

Book Overview

Through a focused and systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writers - theologians, philosophers and jurists - Joseph Canning explores how ideas about power and legitimate authority were developed over the 'long fourteenth century'. The author provides a new model for understanding late medieval political thought, taking full account of the intensive engagement with political reality characteristic of writers in this period. He argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107011418
• ISBN13: 9781107011410
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.1"