Watershed of Modern Politics - Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (13001650)

Zusammenfassung Focuses on the era of the divine right of kings! the last period when kingship was a vital political institution. Identifies the assassinations of Henry III and Henry IV of France as the start of serious challenges to royal sovereignty! with the execution of Charles I of England representing the decisiive repudiation of sacral kingship.

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• Authors: Francis Oakley, Oakley Francis
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2015
• EAN: 9780300194432
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19443-2
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy