Prologue: Late Medieval and Early Modern Political Thinking: Some Metahistorical Challenges

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. General Introduction ix
4. Acknowledgments xvi
5. Prologue: Late Medieval and Early Modern Political Thinking: Some Metahistorical Challenges 1
6. 1. Historical Orientation: From War, Plague, and Schism to Renaissance, Reformation, and Revolt 8
7. 2. The Politics of Nostalgia: Empire, Papacy, and Their Twilight Struggle 14
8. 3. The Politics of Virtue: Italy, the Republican Tradition, and the Humanist Political Legacy 51
9. 4. The Politics of Sin: From Aegidius Romanus, Fitzralph, and Wycliffe to Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and the Radical Reformers 91
10. 5. The Politics of Deference: Old Regal Sacrality and New Divine Right of Kingship 128
11. 6. The Politics of Consent (i): politia saecularis 172
12. 7. The Politics of Consent (ii): politia ecclesiastica 209
13. 8. The Watershed of Modern Politics 240
14. Epilogue 286
15. Notes 293
16. Bibliography 353
17. Index 391