Prologue: kingship and its changing profile in the central Middle Ages -- Historical orientation: the flowering of medieval Europe -- The Christian commonwealth (i): regnum vs. sacerdotium -- the struggle for control -- Recuperating the past (i): nature and chronology of the process -- Recuperating the past (ii): the encounter with Christian and Roman antiquity -- Recuperating the past (iii): fruits of the encounter with Greek antiquity -- Proto-constitutionalist innovation: the roots of consent theory and the emergence of representative institutions -- Priestly kings and royal popes: the resilience of regal sacrality -- The Christian commonwealth : disintegration.
Series:
The emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages ; v. 2
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