Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State
always stopping his mouth ‘with this consideration of the perfect state’, which itself ‘smelleth a little of tyranny’ (67 ff., 8 ...
acquired the ambiguity which Raleigh noted and which has given it its special resonance ever since. It was an ambiguity appropri ...
their sovereign ruler and governor’, not in ‘the dread and fear of laws’,^35 but in a time of religious turmoil such love was di ...
against the ‘Monstrous Regiment [i.e. government] of Women’ with a domestic version of the ‘mixed state’ argument: it did not ma ...
what is the state in Shakespeare’s plays that has business, cares, nerves, tricks, arguments, papers to be perused and reasons w ...
between the historical (as one ‘not ill versed in our country’s institu- tions’) and the philosophical (discussing whether the l ...
himself studied and taught in Toulouse before moving to Paris in 1559, published in his Six Livres de la Républiquean analysis o ...
shared religion and laws, but by the existence within the country of an authority able to make the laws and appoint magistrates ...
general (in which Bodin himself sat in 1576), for it reflected and confirmed the divisions within the country, but in a ‘soverei ...
command,... make laws for other nations’, and go on to establish the ‘best kind of Commonwealth’. The latter is defined as a bal ...
on the local custumals of France, laws registered in parlement, and six thousand marginal citations of Roman and Canon law. In h ...
‘all inhabitants of the kingdom of whatever status’, who should be regarded as the ultimate source of the ruler’s authority. The ...
chief, but what really challenged royal sovereignty was the attribution of overriding authority to the conscience of the citizen ...
has been called a ‘technology of authority’. There was necessary to a prince’s state a ‘civil prudence’, consisting in the first ...
he concludes that the finest lives are those lived after ‘a common and human model, in an orderly way but without marvels or ext ...
block shook the whole. His fellow Frenchmen would know what he was talking about when he said that putting one’s opinions above ...
Pierre Charron also wrote his De la Sagesse(first edition 1601) from experience of the religious wars and reached the same concl ...
Charron, and the numerous translations of French works show how the political speculations of the period of religious wars were ...
duty ‘without wasting time upon refuting the adversaries’, and Basilicon Doron(first printed in 1599), which turns scholastic pr ...
The importance of this emphasis on legislative sovereignty appeared when James added the English to his Scottish crown, and atte ...
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