Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350–c.1450
  • Cited by 52
      • Show more authors
      • You may already have access via personal or institutional login
    • Select format
    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2008
      19 May 1988
      ISBN:
      9781139055390
      9780521243247
      9780521423885
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521243247
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.425kg, 818 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.18kg, 818 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, History of Ideas, History, Ancient Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      The Cambridge History of Political Thought
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Philosophy & Political Thought
    You may already have access via personal or institutional login
    • Selected: Digital
    Add to cart View cart Buy from Cambridge.org
    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, History of Ideas, History, Ancient Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    The Cambridge History of Political Thought
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Philosophy & Political Thought
    Information

    Book description

    This volume, first published in 1988, offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than a thousand years. A work of both synthesis and assessment, The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought presents the results of several decades of critical scholarship in the field, and reflects in its breadth of enquiry precisely that diversity of focus which characterised the medieval sense of the 'political', preoccupied with universality at some levels, and with almost minute particularity at others. Thus among the vital questions explored by the distinguished team of contributors are the nature of authority, of justice, of property; the problem of legitimacy, of allegiance, of resistance to the powers that be; the character and function of law, and the role of custom in sustaining a social structure. While the predominant emphasis of the volume is necessarily upon those ideas that developed within Latin Christendom, full weight is also given to the impact of Byzantine, Jewish, and Islamic thought, and the whole comprises a unique distillation of knowledge upon a multi-faceted screen.

    Reviews

    "...the book successfully brings together a rich and varied synthesis of current scholarship on medieval political ideas. It furnishes a benchmark by which subsequent work on these topics will inevitably be measured." James A. Brundage, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.

    Refine List

    Actions for selected content:

    Select all | Deselect all
    • View selected items
    • Export citations
    • Download PDF (zip)
    • Save to Kindle
    • Save to Dropbox
    • Save to Google Drive

    Save Search

    You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

    Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
    Cancel
    ×

    Contents

    Page 1 of 2

    Contents

    Page 1 of 2

    Metrics

    Altmetric attention score

    Full text views

    Total number of HTML views: 0
    Total number of PDF views: 0 *
    Loading metrics...

    Book summary page views

    Total views: 0 *
    Loading metrics...

    * Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

    Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

    Accessibility standard: Unknown

    Why this information is here

    This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.

    Accessibility Information

    Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.