Politics and eternity : : studies in the history of medieval and early-modern political thought / / by Francis Oakley.

• Superior document: Studies in the history of Christian thought ; Volume XCII
• VerfasserIn: Oakley, Francis,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Köln : : Brill,, [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian thought ; Volume XCII.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (373 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This collection of studies in the history of political thought from late antiquity to the early-eighteenth century ranges broadly across themes of kingship, political theology, constitutional ideas, natural-law thinking and consent theory. The studies are linked together by three shared characteristics. First, all of them explore the continuities that existed during those centuries between legal/political thinking and theology. Second, nearly all of them transgress the sharp dividing line traditionally drawn between the "medieval" and the " modern" which did so much in the past to distort our understanding of intellectual developments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Third, all of them raise historiographic questions or probe the metahistorical/methodological questions which have troubled the field for the past quarter-century and more.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Text, Context, Temperament and Tradition -- 2. Celestial Hierarchies Revisited: Ullmann's Vision of Medieval Politics -- 3. "Verius est licet difficilius:" Tierney's Foundations of the Conciliar Theory after Forty Years -- 4. Legitimation by Consent: The Question of the Medieval Roots -- 5. "Anxieties of Influence:" Skinner, Figgis, Conciliarism and Early-Modern Constitutionalism -- 6. Complexities of Context: Gerson, Bellarmine, Sarpi, Richer and the Venetian Interdict of 1606-1607 -- 7. Locke, Natural Law, and God: Again -- 8. Jacobean Political Theology: Holdsworth, McIlwain and the Absolute and Ordinary Powers of the King -- 9. "Adamantine Fetters of Destiny:" The Absolute and Ordained Power of God and King in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 10. Epilogue: Oakeshott's Will and Artifice and the Mirror of Eternity -- Index of Names and Places -- Subject Index -- Bibliography.