Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State

wavering; the following day the same question should be put again, away from the place of torture, to see if he stood by his ans ...

always consistent) political ideas, Machiavelli idealized the ‘ancient institutions’ (ordini antiche) of France to an extraordin ...

and individual contentment, for from discord would follow the ruin of the monarchy and the dissolution of the mystical body.^93 ...

representatives of the two types of government into which he thinks all principalities are divided. Lo stato del Turcois difficu ...

chapter nine From Law to Politics: The Genesis of ‘the Modern State’ By theend of the middle ages the expansion of royal governm ...

Comparing and criticizing states of commonwealths In later medieval and early modern Europe war and diplomacy fostered the compa ...

The language of the late medieval English Parliament Rolls reflected the same exaltation that is found in French writers of a ki ...

‘Common weal’ (i.e. common well-being) was the synonym found in the parliamentary petitions which moved into English in the firs ...

reported to them and convinced of the need to relieve his ‘high estate’, petitioned for an Act of Resumption of royal grants of ...

In every respect except royal finances the contrast Fortescue drew from his unique ability to set the government of the France o ...

or the testimony of liars, not as under English law by the verdicts of juries carefully chosen by the sheriffs. Alone of countri ...

confined, he thinks, to the nobles who foment it, and the king of England never raises taxes without assembling his parliament, ...

order of policy... of all politic Rule... and also the Laws of Nature and of England’ had been perverted at the end of Edward IV ...

he lay in the Tower of London at the beginning of Henry VIII’s reign, condemned for his ruthless enforcement of the king’s feuda ...

inspiration for the group of preachers and writers in the middle years of the sixteenth century known as ‘the commonwealth men’. ...

State and sovereignty Though they contrasted in their social vision, More and Elyot both rested their ‘state of the common [or p ...

into the common law. Consequently it also belonged to the common law courts to enforce the laws of God and the Church. St. Germa ...

the realm’ and even ‘of the commonwealth’. The protagonists of the Dialoguewere real people, humanist divines who had known each ...

(it might be ‘the state of Christendom’ or of ‘Christ’s church’, as well as of ‘any country, city or town’: pp. 34, 38, 40) is w ...

These are reforms of ‘the state of the commonwealth’. But ‘state’ also appears in the Dialoguein the other sense of the state of ...