CHAPTER 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. PART 1: The Mixed Constitution
6. CHAPTER 1. Introduction 3
7. CHAPTER 2. The Mixed Constitution in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 13
8. PART 2: Thomas Aquinas and His Successors
9. CHAPTER 3. Thomas Aquinas 39
10. CHAPTER 4. Giles of Rome 60
11. CHAPTER 5. Peter of Auvergne 77
12. CHAPTER 6. Ptolemy of Lucca 92
13. CHAPTER 7. Engelbert of Admont 118
14. CHAPTER 8. John of Paris 139
15. PART 3: The Fourteenth Century
16. CHAPTER 9. Aristotelian Political Thought in the Fourteenth Century 161
17. CHAPTER 10. Relativism and the Best Polity 165
18. CHAPTER 11. Kingship, Popular Sovereignty, and the Mixed Constitution 180
19. CHAPTER 12. Nicole Oresme and the Synthesis of Aristotelian Political Thought 203
20. PART 4: The Fifteenth Century and the Early Modern Period
21. CHAPTER 13. Conciliarism 243
22. CHAPTER 14. Later Theories of Mixed Government in England and Northern Europe 260
23. CHAPTER 15. The Mixed Constitution and Italian Republicanism 278
24. CHAPTER 16. Conclusion 301
25. Bibliography 309
26. Index 337