{"product_id":"a-history-of-political-thought-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-renaissance-hardback-9780631186526","title":"A History of Political Thought; From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (Hardback) 9780631186526","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA History of Political Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom the Middle Ages to the Renaissance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJanet Coleman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631186526, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 April 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 3 cm, 0.708 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is a very well-informed, thoughtful and scholarly account that is destined to be read closely (and with great profit) by specialists in the field as well as by the students for whom it is primarily intended.\" \u003ci\u003eFrancis Oakley, Edward Dorr Professor of the History of Ideas and President Emeritus of Williams College\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c!--end--\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Professor Coleman demonstrates an admirable grasp of the detail and subtlety of the philosophical arguments, and their relation to social and historial circumstances, including trends in wider spheres of thought [...] I found the chapter on Plato particularly illuminating and students will find much of ambiguity in \u003ci\u003eThe Republic\u003c\/i\u003e clarified by Coleman's discussion.[...] Students of specialist courses in Greek, Stoic and early Christian political thought will gain much from this scholarly and erudite book by an acknowledged expert in the field\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Boucher, Cardiff University English Historical Review Vol 117, June 2002\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis volume continues the story of European political theorising by focusing on medieval and Renaissance thinkers. It includes extensive discussion of the practices that underpinned medieval political theories and which continued to play crucial roles in the eventual development of early-modern political institutions and debates. The author strikes a balance between trying to understand the philosophical cogency of medieval and Renaissance arguments on the one hand, elucidating why historically-suited medieval and Renaissance thinkers thought the ways they did about politics; and why we often think otherwise.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Medieval Political Ideas and Medieval Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedieval Sources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical Context of Early Medieval Political Thought.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarolingian Christian Kingship and Feudal Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslatio Imperii.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheocratic Kingship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origins of Papal Authority and the Gelasian Doctrine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo Swords Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Twelfth-century 'Renaissance': Canon Lawyers and their Heirs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Twelfth-century 'Renaissance' and Civil Lawyers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCivilians and Canonists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividual and Collective Liberties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSovereignty and Corporations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Law, Rights and the Lawyers Concern for Individual Autonomy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrigins of Property Rights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedieval Education: Practical Moral Philosophy of Ethics, Economics and Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Contribution of Arabic and Jewish Thinking to the Twelfth-century 'REnaissance'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotle in the Universities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthics and Politics in the Liberal Arts Course.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Purpose of Aristotelian Rhetorical Persuasion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Thirteenth 'Aristotelian' Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Later Thirteenth-century Understanding of Rhetoric's Service to a Prince: Giles of Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotelian Rhetoric.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReturning to Giles of Rome's Rhetorical De regimine principum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRhetoric outside the University and Aristotle within the University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotle's \u003ci\u003eEthics\u003c\/i\u003e for Medieval University Students.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLawyers Versus the Arts Faculty Philosophers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Mendicant Orders: Franciscans and Dominicans and Political Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. St Thomas Aquinas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophy of Man.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReality and Metaphysics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNaming, Natures and Actual Existents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatures and Definitions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubstantial Form and Corporeal Individuation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeing and Essence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCause and Effect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrace Added to and Perfecting, Not Destroying, Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSense Origin of Knowing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReason and Will.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Will's Relation to Justice as Universal Principal and as Historically Contingent Conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEudaomonia\/beatitudo: Imoorality and the Completion of Desire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRationality and the Freedom of the Will.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Will and the Doctrine of Original Sin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Theology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eState and Church: The Consequences of Natural Theology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFree Will and Responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAquinas on Law and Ploitics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Law and Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Law beyond Cicero.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Human Community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Consequences of the Fall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividual Rights and the States's Law.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Contrast with Augustine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mixed Constitution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrivate Property Rights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. John of Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiographical Details.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Franciscan Position.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dominican Position.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origin of Government.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Thomistic Underpinning of \u003ci\u003edominium in rebus\u003c\/i\u003e, Lordship and Ownership of Things.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Justification of Private Ownership.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLimitations on Government.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origin of the Priesthood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Relation of the Church to its Property.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeposition Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Marsilius of Padua.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiographical Details.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Reading Discourse 1.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Observations from Discourse 2.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. William of Ockham.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiographical Details.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOckham's Positions on Church and State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOckham's Epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOckham's Dualism Concerning Secular and Spiritual Government: Continuing the Narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComparisions with Marsilius.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Exceptional Exercise of Coercive Authority.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Rights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCorporattion Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOckham's 'Absolutism'. How did Ockham Come to Hold These Views?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRight Reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScriptural Hermeneutics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOckham's Ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Late Medieval Fortunes of Corporation Theories in the Church's 'Concilar Theory.'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Italien Renaissance and Machiavelli's Political Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Italien City-States Compared with Other European Cities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Unconventional AIms of this VChapter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunal Discourses and Citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity, Civitas, Ranked Citizenship and Local Patriotisms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Involvement of Citizens in Late Thirteenth-century Communal Government.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Communal Ideal and the Menace of Factions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Evolution of the Florentine Governing Class.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho Wanted to Play an Active Role in Fifteenth-century Florentine Government?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHumanism and Humanist Conceptions of Florentine Republicanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFifteenth-century Florentine Ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNiccolo Machiavelli.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMachiavelli's Political Morality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFounding and Maintaining the 'Stato'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fixity of Man's Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharacter Formation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 'Fit' Between Character and the Times.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFortune.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Impetuous Prince Who Must Learn How Not to Have Fixed Dispositions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearn to Imitate Foxes and Lions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMachiavelli's 'Popular' Government: His Views of the \u003ci\u003ePopolo\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52316776104216,"sku":"9780631186526","price":108.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631186526.jpg?v=1781824700","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-history-of-political-thought-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-renaissance-hardback-9780631186526","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}