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The differentiation of authority : the medieval turn toward existence / James Greenaway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenaway, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power (Social sciences)--History--To 1500.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Authority--History--To 1500.
- Authority.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Catholic University of America Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this study, James Greenaway explores the philosophical continuity between contemporary Western society and the Middle Ages. Allowing for genuinely modern innovations, he makes the claim that the medieval search for order remains fundamentally unbroken in our search for order today.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The medieval political order to 1150
- The emergence of the individual
- Constitutionality and existence in medieval England
- Crisis and closure 1: the isolation of the sovereign individual
- Crisis and closure 2: the submergence of existence
- Continental problems in political order
- The medieval papacy and the overreach of authority
- Toward the future
- Concluding remarks: the contemporary west, islam, and the equilibrium of authorities.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1957-4
- OCLC:
- 811732110
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