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9780300155389

Empty Bottles of Gentilism : Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (To 1050)

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    9780300155389

  • ISBN10:

    0300155387

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2010-03-23
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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In this bookthe first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thoughtFrancis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late Roman antiquity and of the early European middle ages. By challenging the popular belief that the ancient Greek and Roman worlds provided the origins of our inherently secular politics, Oakley revises our understanding of the history of political theory in a fundamental and far-reaching manner that will reverberate for decades. This book lays the foundations for Oakley's next two volumes, which will develop his argument that it is in the Latin middle ages that we must seek the ideological roots of modern political secularism. .

Author Biography

Francis Oakley is President Emeritus and Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus, at Williams College.

Table of Contents

General Introductionp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xiv
Prologue: Kingship and the Long Shadow of the Archaic Pastp. 1
Prolegomenon: The Cosmic Kingship in Mediterranean Antiquity
Historical Orientation: Hellenic, Hellenistic, Hebraic, and Roman Antiquityp. 13
Ancient Affections: The Archaic Pattern of Royal Sacrality and the Hellenistic Legacyp. 18
Abrahamic Departures: The Hebraic and Christian Contributionp. 40
The Long Twilight of the Sacral Kingship in Greek and Latin Christendom (c. 3oo-c. 1050)
Historical Orientation: The Heirs of Romep. 67
Patristic Affirmation: The Greek Fathers and the Eusebian Tradition in Christian Rome, Byzantium, and Russiap. 79
Patristic Reservation: The Latin Fathers from Tertullian to Augustinep. 111
The Early Medieval West (i): Sacral Kingship in the Germanic Successor Kingdomsp. 143
The Early Medieval West (ii): Fidelity, Consent, and the Emergence of "Feudal" Institutionsp. 177
The Early Medieval West (iii): The Clerical Order and the Rise of the Papal Monarchyp. 200
Epiloguep. 220
Notesp. 225
Bibliographyp. 265
Indexp. 287
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