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Author Oakley, Francis, author.

Title The watershed of modern politics : law, virtue, kingship, and consent (1300-1650) / Francis Oakley
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 415 pages)
Series The emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages ; volume 3
Oakley, Francis. Emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages ; v. 3
Contents Prologue: Late Medieval and Early Modern Political Thinking: Some Metahistorical Challenges -- Historical Orientation: From War, Plague, and Schism to Renaissance, Reformation, and Revolt -- The Politics of Nostalgia: Empire, Papacy, and Their Twilight Struggle -- The Politics of Virtue: Italy, the Republican Tradition, and the Humanist Political Legacy -- The Politics of Sin: From Aegidius Romanus, Fitzralph, and Wycliffe to Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and the Radical Reformers -- The Politics of Deference: Old Regal Sacrality and New Divine Right of Kingship -- The Politics of Consent (i): politia saecularis -- The Politics of Consent (ii): politia ecclesiastica -- The Watershed of Modern Politics -- Epilogue
Summary The concluding volume of Francis Oakley's authoritative trilogy moves on to engage the political thinkers of the later Middle Ages, Renaissance, Age of Reformation and religious wars, and the era that produced the Divine Right Theory of Kingship. Oakley's ground-breaking study probes the continuities and discontinuities between medieval and early modern modes of political thinking and dwells at length on the roots and nature of those contract theories that sought to legitimate political authority by grounding it in the consent of the governed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed December 9, 2018)
Subject Kings and rulers -- History -- To 1500
Kings and rulers -- History -- 16th century
Church and state -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Church and state -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Middle Ages.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Church and state
Kings and rulers
Middle Ages
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015937149
ISBN 9780300213799
0300213794
0300194439
9780300194432