Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State

personal injuries (where it focused on the secret ways of harming credited to women), well before the rooting out of pacts with ...

chapter eight The Monarchical State of the Later Middle Ages In thelater middle ages the two principal meanings of statuswhich h ...

experience to provide ‘good council concerning future things [de futuris]’. (Reaching purposefully into the future, Aquinas’s bo ...

A kingdom had to have a considerable population and geographical size and needed a more complex machinery of government.^5 Confe ...

the legal norms of church and kingdom could be best preserved in pictures.^11 Legislation to ‘reform the state of the realm for ...

Twenty years later the pressures of the same Anglo-French war pro- voked the ‘Good Parliament’ in England to make similar critic ...

judges.^18 In 1355 the whole corps of judges of king’s bench and common pleas, barons of the exchequer and the king’s serjeants- ...

justified monarchy in metaphysical and moral terms which retained their resonance for centuries.^22 A seventeenth-century Englis ...

greatness, he composed around the year 1300 the last four fifths of the treatise De regimine principum which was ascribed as a w ...

While awaiting the perfection of Christ’s rule, the commonwealth (respublica) had continued to grow ‘on the example of the ancie ...

priestly class necessary to ‘the state of this world’ (huius saeculi statu) not politically but because of its cultivation of th ...

the attractions of a political community (communitas politica), such as he thought was commonly found in an Italian city, in whi ...

were combined with monarchy, Walter maintained, when ‘the king con- vokes parliament for conducting difficult affairs’—apparentl ...

importance, and in 1320 ‘the nation of Scots’ acknowledged in ‘The Declaration of Arbroath’ that ‘this same kingdom and people’ ...

of government quickly shaded into what Richard saw as encroachment on his royal state. By their revolt, parliament was told, the ...

noble estates of the lords’ bad councillors and justices must be replaced, and the lords must not use the ‘power they had in the ...

therefore easy to understand, and using secular lords and the knightly class to enforce them. The point of Wyclif’s argument is ...

above all that parliament had presumed to turn into a statute the grant like that made by Edward II in 1310 of a commission with ...

being the cost of the multitude of bishops, ladies, and their retainers enjoying the hospitality of the royal household. The Com ...

as a usurpation of royal power, along with the pardon that Gloucester, Arundel, and Warwick had prudently obtained for their act ...