The Mortgage of the Past; Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300)

by Francis Oakley

• ISBN13: 9780300176339
• ISBN10: 0300176333
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2012-04-24
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume in the series. Here, Oakley explores kingship from the tenth century to the beginning of the fourteenth, showing how, under the stresses of religious and cultural development, kingship became an inceasingly secular institution. "A masterpiece and the central part of a trilogy that will be a true masterwork."Jeffrey Burton Russell, University of California, Santa Barbara

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

General Introduction	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Prologue: Kingship and Its Changing Profile in the Central Middle Ages	p. 1
Historical Orientation: The Flowering of Medieval Europe	p. 6
The Christian Commonwealth (i): Regnum vs. Sacerdotium-the Struggle for Control	p. 15
Recuperating the Past (i): Nature and Chronology of the Process	p. 42
Recuperating the Past (ii): The Encounter with. Christian and Roman Anticruity	p. 6 6
Recuperating the Past (iii): Fruits of the Encounter with Greek Antiquity	p. 100
Proto-Constitutionalist Innovation: The Roots of Consent Theory and the Emergence of Representative Institutions	p. 138
Priestly Kings and Royal Popes: The Resilience of Regal Sacrality	p. 160
The Christian Commonwealth (ii): Disintegration	p. 185
Epilogue	p. 220
Notes	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 282
Index	p. 309
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