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 characterist...

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.