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ix, 665 pages ; 26 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Provides a context for understanding today's super states by tracing the origins of political thought from the earliest prestates through subsequent eras, including the philosophers and thinkers of the Greek city-state, Roman law, and the Christian Gospels; Nemo further examines the influence on political organization that extends from canon law and the influence of numerous Christian thinkers"--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
General introduction : anthropology and politics -- Part 1. Ancient Greece -- Political ideas in Greece before Plato -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Xenophon, Isocrates, Demosthenes -- Political ideas in the Hellenistic age -- Part 2. Rome -- Roman law and Western humanism -- The historical context -- Roman political institutions -- Private law -- Political ideas under the Roman republic -- Political ideas under the empire -- Part 3. The Christian West -- The "political" ideas of the Bible -- Christianity and politics at the time of the Roman empire -- Early Middle Ages (fifth to eleventh centuries) -- Feudalism and sacred kingship -- The high Middle Ages (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) : the papal revolution -- Saint Thomas Aquinas -- The end of the Middle Ages (fourteenth to fifteenth centuries) : toward the modern concept of the state -- Medieval millenarianism. |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Subject |
Political science -- History -- To 1500.
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Political science. (OCoLC)fst01069781
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| Chronological Term |
To 1500
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Casler, Kenneth.
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| ISBN |
9780820704555 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0820704555 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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