Ideal Government and the Mixed Constitution in the Middle Ages / / James M. Blythe.
Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Political writers in the early modern period applied this idea to government in England, Venice, and Florence, and Americans used it in designing their constitution....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART 1: The Mixed Constitution
- CHAPTER 1. Introduction
- CHAPTER 2. The Mixed Constitution in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
- PART 2: Thomas Aquinas and His Successors
- CHAPTER 3. Thomas Aquinas
- CHAPTER 4. Giles of Rome
- CHAPTER 5. Peter of Auvergne
- CHAPTER 6. Ptolemy of Lucca
- CHAPTER 7. Engelbert of Admont
- CHAPTER 8. John of Paris
- PART 3: The Fourteenth Century
- CHAPTER 9. Aristotelian Political Thought in the Fourteenth Century
- CHAPTER 10. Relativism and the Best Polity
- CHAPTER 11. Kingship, Popular Sovereignty, and the Mixed Constitution
- CHAPTER 12. Nicole Oresme and the Synthesis of Aristotelian Political Thought
- PART 4: The Fifteenth Century and the Early Modern Period
- CHAPTER 13. Conciliarism
- CHAPTER 14. Later Theories of Mixed Government in England and Northern Europe
- CHAPTER 15. The Mixed Constitution and Italian Republicanism
- CHAPTER 16. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index