Ilustración de la cubierta: mosaico representando la Donation of Constantine, c.1246, in SS.Quattro Coronati, Rome.

Incluye : Prefacio página ix ; Introducción páginas x-xiii ; Lista de abreviaturas páginas xiv-xv ; Conclusión páginas 185-187.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 226-246) e índice.

The origins of medieval political ideas, c. 300-c. 750: Byzantium: the Christian Empire -- The west: Christian kingship -- Kingship and priesthood -- The claims of the papacy -- The Christian world-view and its implications for the state -- The Growth of specificall medieval political ideas, c. 750-c. 1050: Carolingian political ideas: Theocratic monarchy -- Consent and fidelity -- The transpersonal dimensión -- Ideas of empire -- Political ideas, c.900- c. 1050: Rome-based emperorship -- Imperial kingship -- Political ideas in the high middle ages, c. 1050-c. 1150: Spiritual and secular power, c. 150-c. 1150 -- The languages for political thoyght: the revived legacy of antiquity -- Classical-literary: John of Salisbury -- The lenguage of Roman and canon law -- Aristotelian language -- Political ideas in the late middle ages, c. 1290-c. 1450: Ideas of church and of state, c. 1290 -c. 1350: The conflicts between Philip IV and Boniface VIII -- Italy: scholastic ideas and the myth of Rome -- Marsilius of Padua and Willian of Ockham -- Juristic thought: The ruler's will and the normative structure -- Territorial sovereignty -- Corporation theory -- Conciliar ideas: Origins -- The great schism and the councils of Pisa and Constance -- The council of Basel.

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