Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages

by Fritz Kern and Basil Blackwell

A Classic Study of Early Constitutional Law. First published in 1914, this is one of the most important studies of early constitutional law. Kern observes that discussions of the state in the ninth, eleventh and thirteenth centuries invariably asked whose rights were paramount. Were they those of the ruler or the people? Kern locates the origins of this debate, which has continued to the twentieth century, in church doctrine and the history of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158477570X
• ISBN13: 9781584775706
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"