Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State

Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State ...

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Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State ALAN HARDING 3 ...

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Preface Tracingthe growth of the State has become something of an histor- ical industry, but the subject still needs definition. ...

return to the political theorists of the late medieval and early modern period who, in a climate of war and religious conflict, ...

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INTRODUCTION. STATE: WORD AND CONCEPT abbreviations x State as regime State as commonwealth FRANKISH AND ANGLO-SAXON JU ...

Records and dictionaries 347 Secondary works 352 index 368 Contents ix ...

Abbreviations CJ Journal of the House of Commons Concilia Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum Collectio CRR Curia Regis Rolls DRTA Deuts ...

chapter one Introduction. State: Word and Concept YvesCongar^1 and Gaines Post^2 have shone light on the use of ‘status’ in the ...

whatever period of the past they are talking about. Archaic words like polity seem to be no substitute when strong government is ...

sense of state was forged by Italian humanists who sought to under- stand the changes of regime of their cities, the mutazioni d ...

democratiato refer to the various types of government individually: when he wished to refer to these political forms collectivel ...

century Aquinas’s admirer Dante could write (in the Inferno) of the town of Cesena in the Romagna as suspended ‘between tyranny ...

In fact the Aristotelian analysis of regimes assumed from the first competition for power between social groups within territori ...

St. Louis, the great thirteenth-century king, adapted Roman law to the needs of France, in his Établissements.) Once more it is ...

status mundiafter the state of the New Law, though by the grace of the Holy Ghost that law may be kept more perfectly, he was ad ...

In 1284 Edward I king claimed divine providence as his guide for the new order he decreed (statuendum decrevimus) for conquered ...

chapter two Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Justice The barbariankingdoms that succeeded the Roman empire in the west developed into st ...