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Preface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2011

Joseph Canning
Joseph Canning
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Preface

This book is the result of my growing fascination with questions of power and authority. This marks something of a change in my attitude to political thought. When I undertook my first research project I was driven on by the idea of consent. Maybe, over time, I have become more sensitive to the realities of political life.

In writing this book I have benefited so much from discussion with other scholars and students, both graduate and undergraduate. Pride of place must go to all my students over the years at Bangor University: those who took my Special Subject, ‘Ideas of Church and State, 1294–1356’, and my course on ‘Medieval Political Thought’, through their highly intelligent and informed discussions, helped me enormously in the development of my ideas. I am grateful to Bangor University for its support in granting me study leave at an early stage of composition.

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Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296–1417 , pp. ix - x
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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  • Preface
  • Joseph Canning, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296–1417
  • Online publication: 25 October 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511984532.001
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  • Joseph Canning, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296–1417
  • Online publication: 25 October 2011
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  • Preface
  • Joseph Canning, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296–1417
  • Online publication: 25 October 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511984532.001
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