Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State

ISBN-13: 9780198219583 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 410 str.

Alan Harding

Opis

"The State" is the most powerful of political ideas but where does it come from? This broad-ranging new study traces the history of the word and the concept back to the systems of law and justice created by medieval kings and shows how legal institutions acquired political force.

Recenzje

Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State is a substantial and scholarly study of medieval law, political theory, and political practice, which engages with a vast body of source material in very close argument in tracing the 'pre-theoretical understanding' (p.v) of the medieval state.