Rebel Barons: Resisting Royal Power in Medieval Culture

by Luke Sunderland

Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is deep-seated in medieval culture: sovereigns might provide justice, but were always potential tyrants, who usurped power and 'stole' through taxation. Rebel Barons writes the history of this ambivalence, which was especially acute in England, France, and Italy in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, when the modern ideology of sovereignty, arguing for monopolies on justice and the legitimate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198788487
• ISBN13: 9780198788485
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"