Empty Bottles of Gentilism - Kingship Divine in Late Antiquity Early Middle Ages To 1050

Klappentext In this book--the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought--Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late Roman antiquity and of the early European middle ages. By challenging the popular belief that the ancient Greek and Roman worlds provided the origins of our inherently secular politics! Oakley revises our understanding of the history of political theory in a fundamental and far-reaching manner that will reverberate for decades. This book lays the foundations for Oakley's next two volumes! which will develop his argument that it is in the Latin middle ages that we must seek the ideological roots of modern political secularism.. Zusammenfassung Part of a trilogy on the emergence of western political thought! this title explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late Roman antiquity and of the early European middle ages.

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• Authors: Francis Oakley, Francis (Williams College Oakley, Oakley Francis
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2010
• EAN: 9780300155389
• ISBN: 978-0-300-15538-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Emergence of Western Political; The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages; The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages; Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages (YUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas