The Watershed of Modern Politics
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Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300–1650)
Francis Oakley
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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.
Francis Oakley is the Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus, at Williams College. He is also President Emeritus of the College and of the American Council of Learned Societies.
ISBN: 9780300194432
Publication Date: September 15, 2015
Publication Date: September 15, 2015
440 pages, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
