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12/28/19 Mediaeval Political Thought | University of St Andrews Mediaeval Political Thought View Online 267 items Recommended texts (4 items) Mediæval Political Thought: Course Reader: £14.30 (This is a compulsory purchase and contains the majority of our key primary texts.) Political thought in Europe, 1250-1450 - Antony Black, 1992 Book | Suggested for student purchase The Cambridge history of medieval political thought c.350-c.1450 - J. H. Burns, 1988 Book | Suggested for student purchase | Available in the Library and as an e-book A history of medieval political thought, 300-1450 - Joseph Canning, 1996 Book | Suggested for student purchase | Available in the Library and as an e-book Collections of Primary Sources (9 items) Political writings - Thomas Aquinas, 2002 Book Selected political writings - Thomas Aquinas, 1948 Book Augustine: political writings - Augustine, 2001 Book Medieval political philosophy: a source book - 1963 Book Political thought in early fourteenth-century England: treatises by Walter of Milemete, William of Pagula, and William of Ockham - Walter, William, 2002 Book The Cambridge translations of medieval philosophical texts: Vol. 2: Ethics and political philosophy - 2001 Book The ethics of war: classic and contemporary readings - 2006 Book 1/27
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Recommended texts (4 items)
Mediæval Political Thought: Course Reader: £14.30 (This is a compulsory purchase andcontains the majority of our key primary texts.)
Political thought in Europe, 1250-1450 - Antony Black, 1992Book | Suggested for student purchase
The Cambridge history of medieval political thought c.350-c.1450 - J. H. Burns, 1988Book | Suggested for student purchase | Available in the Library and as an e-book
A history of medieval political thought, 300-1450 - Joseph Canning, 1996Book | Suggested for student purchase | Available in the Library and as an e-book
Collections of Primary Sources (9 items)
Political writings - Thomas Aquinas, 2002Book
Selected political writings - Thomas Aquinas, 1948Book
Augustine: political writings - Augustine, 2001Book
Medieval political philosophy: a source book - 1963Book
Political thought in early fourteenth-century England: treatises by Walter of Milemete,William of Pagula, and William of Ockham - Walter, William, 2002
Book
The Cambridge translations of medieval philosophical texts: Vol. 2: Ethics and politicalphilosophy - 2001
Book
The ethics of war: classic and contemporary readings - 2006Book
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Medieval political theory - a reader: the quest for the body politic, 1100-1400 - 1993Book
There are also a number of texts available digitally on the Internet Medieval Sourcebook:http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html
Secondary Reading (19 items)
The Cambridge history of medieval political thought c.350-c.1450 - 1988Book
The Cambridge history of political thought, 1450-1700 - 1991Book
A history of mediaeval political theory in the west - R. W. Carlyle, A. J. Carlyle, 1915-1922Book | 6 vols.
A history of political thought: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance - Janet Coleman,2000
Book
Humanism and tyranny: studies in the Italian Trecento [Texts, translated withintroductions] - Ephraim Emerton, Coluccio Salutati, Gil Alvarez Carrillo de Albornoz,Bartolo, 2011
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Political theories of the Middle Age - Otto Friedrich Von Gierke, 1900Book
The King's two bodies: a study in mediaeval political theology - Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz,1997
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History of political theory: an introduction - George Klosko, 2012-2013Book
The Cambridge history of later medieval philosophy: from the rediscovery of Aristotle tothe disintegration of scholasticism 1100-1600 - Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny, JanPinborg, Eleonore Stump, 1982
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
The Oxford handbook of medieval philosophy - John Marenbon, 2012Book
Medieval philosophy: an historical and philosophical introduction - John Marenbon, 2007Book
Later medieval philosophy (1150-1350): an introduction - John Marenbon, 1987Book
The Cambridge companion to medieval philosophy - 2003
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The growth of political thought in the West: from the Greeks to the end of the Middle Ages- Charles Howard McIlwain, 1932
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A history of political theory - George H. Sabine, 1951Book
The foundations of modern political thought - Quentin Skinner, 1978Book
Trends in medieval political thought - Beryl Smalley, P. R. L. Brown, 1965Book
Principles of government and politics in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2010Book
The making of polities: Europe, 1300-1500 - John Watts, 2009Book
Seminar 1: Introduction: discussion of general themes and problems (2items)
Seminar document (1 items)
Plato, The Republic, trans. A.D. Lindsay, Bk. II, 369-374 (pp. 44-50)
Questions to Consider
What do we mean by the terms 'society' and 'politics'? How have these terms changedover time?
When did political thought begin?
What is a political community?
What are the key concepts in political thought, and why are they important?
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Seminar 2: Classical Political Thought (9 items)
Seminar documents (1 items)
Aristotle, The Politics, trans. T.A. Sinclair (1962; revd. Harmondsworth, 1992): Bk. I, chs.1-2; Bk. IV, chs. 1-12 (on good and bad types of government)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties, trans. Griffin and Atkins, Bk. I, pp. 3-4.
Essential reading (2 items)
The Cambridge history of medieval political thought c.350-c.1450 - J. H. Burns, 1988Book | Read: Introduction and chs. 2 and 3
Political philosophy - A. BrettChapter
Further reading (5 items)
On the Commonwealth: and, On the Laws - Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. James E. G. Zetzel,1999
Book
History of political theory: an introduction, Vol. 1: Ancient and medieval - George Klosko,2012
Book
The growth of political thought in the West: from the Greeks to the end of the Middle Ages- Charles Howard McIlwain, 1932
Book | Read: ch. 6 ‘The Later Middle Ages’
Principles of government and politics in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2010Book | Also copies at JC101.U6
The making of polities: Europe, 1300-1500 - John Watts, 2009Book
Questions to consider
What are the distinctive features of classical political thought?
When, where, and why was it developed?
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How did classical society influence thought about ideal polities?
What was the relationship between Greek and Roman thought?
What was the role of Nature?
Seminar 3: Christian Political Thought in the West up to the TwelfthCentury (21 items)
Seminar documents (1 items)
Augustine, The City of God, Bk. XV, chs. 1-5; XIX, chs. 14-17
Pope Gelasius I, 'On spiritual and temporal power' (494)
John of Salisbury, Policraticus: of the frivolities of courtiers and the footprints ofphilosophers, ed. and trans. C.J. Nederman (Cambridge, 1990), Bk. IV, chs. 1-4; Bk. VI, chs.20-4; Bk.VIII, chs. 17 & 20
Essential reading (5 items)
The Cambridge history of medieval political thought c.350-c.1450 - J. H. Burns, 1988Book | Read: ch. 1
A history of medieval political thought, 300-1450 - Joseph Canning, 1996Book | Read: ch. 2
A history of political thought: [Vol. 1]: From ancient Greece to early Christianity - JanetColeman, 2000
Book | Read: Introduction and chs. 3-6
The Latin fathers - R.A. MarkusChapter
Introduction: the formation of political thought in the west - D.E. LuscombeChapter
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Further Reading (14 items)
Medieval canon law - James A. Brundage, 1995Book | Chs. 2 and 3
A history of political thought: From ancient Greece to early Christianity - Janet Coleman,2000
Book
Political theories of the Middle Age - Otto Friedrich Von Gierke, 1900Book
Hierarchy and the definition of order in the letters of Pseudo-Dionysius: A study in the formand meaning of the Pseudo-Dionysian writings - Ronald F. Hathaway, Dionysius, 1969
Book
Medieval philosophy - Anthony Kenny, 2005Book | ch. 2 'The Schoolmen: from the twelfth century to the Renaissance'
History of political theory: an introduction - George Klosko, 2012-2013Book | Chs. 7 & 8
Two Conceptions of Political Authority: Augustine's DCD XIX, 14-15 and somethirteenth-century interpretations - R. A. Markus, 1965
Article
The growth of political thought in the West: from the Greeks to the end of the Middle Ages- Charles Howard McIlwain, 1932
Book | Ch. 5 'The Early Middle Ages'.
Medieval political theory - a reader: the quest for the body politic, 1100-1400 - 1993Book | Introduction
Greek and Roman political theory - J ProcopeChapter
John of Salisbury and the Doctrine of Tyrannicide - Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse,1967
Article
The crisis of church & state, 1050-1300: with selected documents - Brian Tierney, 1964Book | pp. 116-126, 150-8
Government, law and society - R. Van CaenegemChapter
The world of John of Salisbury - 1984Book
Questions to consider
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How did authorities from the early Church influence mediæval attitudes to politics?
According to the Christian fathers, was political society inherently sinful? If so, why?
What do we mean when we talk about an organic metaphor of the state? What is meant bythe term 'the body-politic'?
Were secular and spiritual power understood to be distinct?
Seminar 4: The Rediscovery of Aristotle (18 items)
Seminar documents (1 items)
Aquinas, 'Commentary on the Politics of Aristotle, Book One,' in Aquinas: Selected PoliticalWritings, ed. A.P. D'Entreves, trans. J.G. Dawson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 98-100
Roger Bacon, Compendium studii philosophiae: despair over thirteenth-century learning
Essential reading (3 items)
The reception and interpretation of Aristotle's Politics - Jean DunbabinChapter
The twelfth-century renaissance - D.E. Luscombe, G.R. EvansChapter
Aristotelianism and the Origins of "Political Science" in the Twelfth Century - Cary J.Nederman, 1991
Article | Also in C.J. Nederman, Medieval Aristotelianism and its Limits: ClassicalTraditions in Moral and Political Philosophy, 12th-15th Centuries (Aldershot, 1997)
Further Reading (13 items)
Political writings - Thomas Aquinas, 2002Book
Selected political writings - Thomas Aquinas, 1948
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Roger Bacon, Compendium Studii Philosophia, 'Lament about thirteenth-century learning'[on IMS website]
Condemnation of 219 PropositionsChapter
Political thought in Europe, 1250-1450 - Antony Black, 1992Book
Ideas and Experience in the Political Thought of Aquinas - Jeremy Catto, 1976Article
A history of political thought: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance - Janet Coleman,2000
Book
Walter Burley's Commentary on the Politics of Aristotle - S. Harrison ThomsonChapter | Chapter 5: Aristotelian philosophy in the university
The common good in late medieval political thought - M. S. Kempshall, 1999Book
The state of nature and the origin of the state - D. E. LuscombeChapter
Medieval Aristotelianism and its limits: classical traditions in moral and politicalphilosophy, 12th-15th centuries - Cary J. Nederman, 1997
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Aristotle and the French Monarchy, 1260-1303 - Renna, Thomas, Jan 1, 1978Article
Aristotle in the West: the origins of Latin Aristotelianism - Fernand van Steenberghen,Léonard Johnston, 1970
Book
Questions to consider
To what extent was Aristotle already known in the West prior to the twelfth century?
What did Aristotle mean when he said 'man is a political animal'?(Politics, I. 1253a1-4)
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How did Aristotle influence the way mediæval writers thought about the purpose of thepolitical community?
Why was there hostility to Aristotelian learning?
How important was Aristotelian language to describe political ideas and institutions?
Seminar 5: Concepts of Good and Bad Government (18 items)
Seminar documents (1 items)
Aquinas, On Kingship: To The King of Cyprus. Done into English by Gerald B. Phelan (Underthe title 'On the Governance of Rulers'), revised I. TH. Eschmann, O. P (Toronto, 1949), Bk.1, ch. 2-6, pp. 11-29
**Ptolemy of Lucca, On the Government of Rulers: De Regimine Principum, trans J. Blythe(Philadelphia, PA, 1997), Bk. 3, ch. 11, pp. 177-82; Bk 4, ch. 1, pp. 215-19
**Bartolus of Sassoferrato, 'Treatise on City Government'
**William of Pagula, Mirror of King Edward III, §§ 1-10 in Political Thought in EarlyFourteenth-Century England: Treatises by Walter of Milemete, William of Pagula, andWilliam of Ockham, ed. and trans. C.J. Nederman (Tempe, Ariz., 2002), pp. 73-83
Essential reading (5 items)
Government - Jean DunbabinChapter
Four English political tracts of the later Middle Ages - Jean Philippe Genet, 1977Book
The foundations of modern political thought - Quentin Skinner, 1978Book | Read: vol. I, ch. 5
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Celestial Hierarchies Revisited: Walter Ullmann's Vision of Medieval Politics - FrancisOakley, 1973
Article
Principles of government and politics in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2010Book | Also copies at JC101.U6
Further Reading (11 items)
On Kingship - Thomas Aquinas, trans. G. B. Phelan, 1949Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
On the Nobility, Wisdom, and Prudence of KingsChapter
Tractatus de Tyrannia (On Tyranny)Chapter
The political thought of The King's Mirror - Sverre Bagge, 1987Book
Chapter 5: Kingship, law and counselChapter
Ideal government and the mixed constitution in the Middle Ages - James M. Blythe, 1992Book
The Perfect Prince: A Study in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Ideals - Lester KrugerBorn, 1928
Article
Giles of Rome's De regimine principum: reading and writing politics at court anduniversity, c. 1275-c.1525 - Charles F. Briggs, 1999
Book | Explores the audience of De Regimine, rather than content
Humanism and tyranny: studies in the Italian Trecento - Ephraim Emerton, ColuccioSalutati, Gil Alvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, Bartolo, 2011
Book
Chapter 17: MachiavelliChapter
Medieval political thought - Walter Ullmann, 1975Book
Questions to consider
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Could there be multiple forms of good or bad government?
What was considered 'good governance' during the Middle Ages?
Seminar 6: Church and State (18 items)
Seminar documents (1 items)
Giles of Rome, On Ecclesiastical Power, ed. and trans. R.W. Dyson (New York, 2004): Pt. II,ch. 6, pp. 113-31 [also available in Lerner and Mahdi (eds.), Medieval Political Philosophy,pp. 391-401]
John of Paris, On Royal and Papal Power, trans. J.A. Watt (Toronto, 1971), chs. 1-2, 10-11[also edition by A.P. Monahan available as e-book]
The Bull Unam Sanctam, Boniface VIII
Licet Iuris, Frankfurt Diet, 1338 [IMS]
Essential reading (4 items)
Political thought in Europe, 1250-1450 - Antony Black, 1992Book | Read: ch. 2 ‘Church and State’
Political thought in medieval times - John Brimyard Morrall, 1971Book | Read: Ch. 6, ‘Designs for a World Monarchy’
The crisis of church & state, 1050-1300: with selected documents - Brian Tierney, 1964Book | Esp. pp. 172-210
Spiritual and temporal powers - J.A. WattChapter
Further Reading (12 items)
A Dispute between a Priest and a Knight - 1967Article
Whether a Prince Can Receive the Goods of the Church for His Own Needs, Namely in Case
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of War, Even Against the Wishes of the Pope - William of OckhamChapter
On Christian government : De regimine Christiano - James of Viterbo, 1995Book
Scholastic political thought and the modern concept of the state - A. BrettChapter
A history of medieval political thought, 300-1450 - Joseph Canning, 1996Book | pp. 135-60
A history of philosophy: Vol.3: Ockham to Suárez - Frederick Copleston, 1953Book
History of Christian philosophy in the Middle Ages - Étienne Gilson, 1955Book
A history of political theory - George H. Sabine, 1951Book | Chs. 14-15
Medieval papalism: the political theories of the medieval canonists - Walter Ullmann, 1949Book
Principles of government and politics in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2010Book | Pt. 1
From politics to reason of state: the acquisition and transformation of the language ofpolitics 1250-1600 - Maurizio Viroli, 1992
Book
Wyclif: political ideas and practice - Michael Wilks, 2000Book | Ch. 7 'Royal Patronage and Anti-Papalism, Ockham to Wyclif'
Questions to consider
What was meant by the metaphor of the 'two swords'?
What arguments were made to defend the idea of the supremacy of spiritual authorityover temporal authority, and vice versa?
Was universal government considered possible or desirable during the Middle Ages?
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Seminar 7: Sovereignty and Authority (28 items)
Seminar documents (1 items)
Brunetto Latini, Book of Treasure, Bk. III, ch. 73-75, in Medieval Political Theory, ed.Nederman and Forhan, pp. 72-5
Magna Carta, 1215
The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320
John Wyclif, On the Duty of the King [De Officio Regis], selections chs. 3 and 5 (plus Intro.),pp. 221-29
Essential reading (6 items)
Elective Kingship and the Unity of Medieval Germany - J. Gillingham, 1991Article
Magna Carta and medieval government - J. C. Holt, 1985Book
Celestial Hierarchies Revisited: Walter Ullmann's Vision of Medieval Politics - FrancisOakley, 1973
Article
The Development of the Medieval Idea of Sovereignty - Walter Ullmann, 1949Article
The problem of sovereignty in the later Middle Ages: the papal monarchy with AugustinusTriumphus and the publicists - Michael Wilks, 1963
Book
John Wyclif on war and peace - Rory Cox, 2014Book | Ch. 5 ‘Wyclif on Politics’, pp. 112-34
Further reading (20 items)
The Golden Bull of the Emperor Charles IV (1356 A.D.)Document
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On the government of rulers: De regimine principum - Ptolemy of Lucca, 1997Book | Bk. 3, ch.11, pp. 177-182
The Declaration of Arbroath: history, significance, setting - G. W. S. Barrow, 2003Book
Lordship, kingship, and empire: the idea of monarchy, 1400- 1525 - J. H. Burns, 1992Book
John Wyclif on war and peace - Rory Cox, 2014Book | Ch. 5 'Wyclif on Politics'
The medieval contribution to political thought: Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua,Richard Hooker - A. P. D'Entrèves, 1959
Book | esp. ch. 5
The nation of Scots and the Declaration of Arbroath (1320) - A. A. M. Duncan, 1970Book
Magna Carta and the idea of liberty - 1972Book
The King's two bodies: a study in mediaeval political theology - Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz,1997
Book
Kingship and law in the Middle Ages: studies - Fritz Kern, 1939Book
John Wyclif - Stephen E. Lahey, 2009Book | ch. 7
Philosophy and politics in the thought of John Wyclif - Stephen E. Lahey, 2008Book
Political thought in medieval times - John Brimyard Morrall, 1971Book
Magna Carta and the Declaration of Arbroath - R. Nicholson, 1965Article
Kingship in the Disputatio Inter Clericum et Militem - Thomas J. Renna, 1973Article
Rulers and Justice, 1200-1500 - M. J. RyanChapter
Bartolus of Sassoferrato and Free Cities - Magnus Ryan, 2000-12Article
Principles of government and politics in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 1961Book
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Wyclif: political ideas and practice - Michael Wilks, Anne Hudson, 2000Book | Ch. 2 ‘Predestination, Property and Power’
Bartolus of Sassoferrato: his position in the history of medieval political thought - CecilWoolf, 1913
Book
Questions to consider
What were considered sources for authority during the middle ages?
What were legitimate methods for exercising authority?
How can Ullmann's 'ascending' and 'descending' theories of government help us tounderstand mediæval political society and authority?
In what ways was sovereignty limited?
Seminar 8: Law and Justice (32 items)
Seminar documents (1 items)
The Treatise of the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England commonly called Glanvill,ed. and trans. G.D.G. Hall (Oxford, 1993), read the 'Prologue' [also available in MedievalPolitical Theory, ed. Nederman and Forhan, pp. 61-3]
Aquinas: Political Writings, ed. R.W. Dyson (Cambridge, 2002): pp. 76-99, 114-33, 137-48,168-91
Brunetto Latini, Book of Treasure, Bk. III, chs. 90-4, in Medieval Political Theory, ed.
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Nederman and Forhan, pp. 87-90
Honoré Bouvet (Bonet), The Tree of Battles, trans. G.W. Coopland (Liverpool, 1949), PartIV, i: 'From What Law does War come?'
Essential reading (6 items)
Better to be ruled by the best man or best laws? - James of ViterboChapter
The just war - Jonathan BarnesChapter
Medieval canon law - James A. Brundage, 1995Book | Read: chs. 3, 5, 7, 8
Law, legislative authority, and theories of government, 1150–1300 - K. PenningtonChapter
Rulers and Justice, 1200-1500 - M. J. RyanChapter
Roman law - P. G. SteinChapter
Further Reading (24 items)
The etymologies of Isidore of Seville - Isidore, 2006Book
The defender of the peace - Marsilius, 2005Book
Ideas of the State in Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Commentators on the Roman Law- Joseph P. Canning, 1983
Article
Law, sovereignty and corporation theory - J. P. CanningChapter
The political thought of Baldus de Ubaldis - Joseph Canning, 1987Book
A history of medieval political thought, 300-1450 - 1996Book
The corporation in the political thought of the Italian jurists in 13th and 14th centuries - J.P. Canning, 1980
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Article | pp. 162-74.
Natural Law and the Right of Self-Defence according to John of Legnano and John Wyclif -Rory Cox
Chapter
The medieval contribution to political thought: Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua,Richard Hooker - A. P. D'Entrèves, 1959
Book
Argument from Roman law in political thought, 1200-1600 - Myron Piper Gilmore, 1967Book
The formation of the English common law: law and society in England from the NormanConquest to Magna Carta - John Hudson, 1996
Book
Roman Law - D. JohnstonChapter
The laws of war in the late Middle Ages - Maurice Hugh Keen, 1993Book
Kingship and law in the Middle Ages: studies - Fritz Kern, 1939Book
Aquinas and natural law - D. J. O'Connor, 1967Book
The prince and the law, 1200-1600: sovereignty and rights in the western legal tradition -Kenneth Pennington, 1993
Book
Jus ad Bellum - G. M. ReichbergChapter
The just war in the Middle Ages - Frederick H. Russell, 1975Book
Philosophy of law: an introduction - Mark Tebbit, 2000Book
Religion, law, and the growth of constitutional thought 1150-1650 - Brian Tierney, 1982Book
The idea of natural rights, natural law, and church law, 1150-1625 - Brian Tierney, EmoryUniversity, 2001
Book
The English judiciary in the age of Glanvill and Bracton, c.1176-1239 - Ralph V. Turner,1985
Book
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The medieval idea of law, as represented by Lucas de Penna: a study in fourteenth-centurylegal scholarship - Walter Ullmann, 1946
Book
Law and politics in the Middle Ages: an introduction to the sources of medieval politicalideas - Walter Ullmann, 1975
Book
Questions to consider
Were law and justice considered to be the same thing?
What was the source of law and justice?
How many different types of law were there thought to be? What differentiated them? Wasone type superior?
Who studied law, and how was it applied?
Why is the term 'ius' problematic for modern commentators?
What was the relationship between justice, law and war?
Seminar 9: The Mediæval ‘Polis’ and the Individual (27 items)
Seminar documents (2 items)
Ptolemy of Lucca, On the Government of Rulers: De Regimine Principum, trans J. Blythe(Philadelphia, PA, 1997): Bk. 2, ch. 8, pp. 120-3; Bk. 4, ch. 2-4, pp. 219-29; ch. 23, pp.271-4
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Marsilius of Padua, The Defender of the Peace, ed. and trans. A. Brett (Cambridge, 2005),Discourse I, chs. 1-7, pp. 14-39
Machiavelli, N., Discourses on Livy, trans. J.C. Bondanella and P. Bondanella (Oxford,1997), Bk. I, chs. 1-2, pp. 19-28, and ch. 55, pp. 134-8 [on cities and republics] Bk. III, ch.7, p. 277-8 [on liberty and servitude]: various editions available
Dino Compagni's chronicle of Florence - ed. D. E. Bornstein, 1986Book | Read: Bk. 1, pp. 4-30
Essential reading (5 items)
The individual and society - Antony BlackChapter
The Italian city-state: from commune to signoria - P. J. Jones, 1997Book
The discovery of the individual, 1050-1200 - Colin Morris, 1987Book
The foundations of modern political thought - Quentin Skinner, 1978Book | Read: vol. I, chs. 1-3
The republican ideal of political liberty - Q. SkinnerChapter
Further reading (19 items)
Machiavelli: The Republican Citizen and the Author of 'the Prince' - Hans Baron, 1961Article
City StatesChapter
Ideal government and the mixed constitution in the Middle Ages - James M. Blythe, 1992Book
Liberty, right and nature : individual rights in later scholastic thought / Annabel S. Brett. -Brett, Annabel S.
Book
Property and poverty - J. ColemanChapter
Politics: Theory and Practice - J. P. Genet
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Philosophy and Political Thought in the Fourteenth Century - A. GewirthChapter
Lagarde, G., 'Individualisme et corporatisme au moyen age', in L'Organisation corporativedu moyen age a la fin de l'ancien regime (Louvain 1937), pp. 1-59
Community and consent: the secular political theory of Marsiglio of Padua's Defensor pacis- Cary J. Nederman, 1994
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The growth of the medieval city: from late antiquity to the early fourteenth century - DavidNicholas, 1997
Book
An introduction to the history of English medieval towns - Susan Reynolds, 1977Book
Marsilius of Padua and Italian Political Thought of his time - N. RubinsteinChapter
The idea of natural rights, natural law, and church law, 1150-1625 - Brian Tierney, EmoryUniversity, 2001
Book
Marsilius on Rights - Brian Tierney, 1991Article
Religion and Rights: A Medieval Perspective - Brian Tierney, 1987Article
Natural rights theories: their origin and development - Richard Tuck, 1979Book
Principles of government and politics in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 1961Book
Machiavelli and the republican idea of politics - M. ViroliChapter
The Italian city-republics - Daniel Philip Waley, 1988Book
Questions to consider
How were Classical ideas of the polis ('city-state') adapted by mediæval political thinkers?
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What was meant by liberty in this period?
Was there a sense of individual rights during the middle ages?
How important was the idea of the 'common good', and what did it imply?
Seminar 10: The Mechanics of Government (21 items)
Seminar documents (2 items)
Ptolemy of Lucca, On the Government of Rulers: De Regimine Principum, trans J. Blythe(Philadelphia, PA, 1997): Bk. 2, ch. 8, pp. 121-3; ch. 10, pp. 125-8;
Brunetto Latini, Book of Treasure, Bk. III, chs. 88-100, pp. 86-94
The Parliament rolls of medieval England, 1275-1504 - eds. Chris Given-Wilson et al., 2005Book | Read the proceedings from a parliament of your choice (those during the Wars of
the Roses are particularly interesting, c. 1449-85)
Essential reading (4 items)
Government and community: England 1450-1509 - J. R. Lander, 1980Book | Ch. 2 ‘The Government of the Realm’, pp. 33-64.
The Chancellor, the Chancery, and the Council at the End of the Fifteenth Century - N.Pronay
Chapter
The making of polities: Europe, 1300-1500 - John Watts, 2009Book | Read: pp. 205-53
Late medieval France - Graeme Small, 2009Book | Read: pp. 185-95 [on municipal government]
Further Reading (14 items)
Political thought in Europe, 1250-1450 - Antony Black, 1992
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Book | chs. 5 & 6
Land and lordship: structures of governance in medieval Austria - Otto Brunner, 1992Book
A history of mediaeval political theory in the west - R. W. Carlyle, A. J. Carlyle, 1915-1922Book | Vol. VI, Pt. 2, ch. 6 [on representative institutions]6 vols.
Medieval representation and consent: a study of early Parliaments in England and Ireland,with special reference to the 'Modus tenendi Parliamentum' - M. V. Clarke, 1936
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Nobles, Patricians and Officers: The Making of a Regional Political Elite in Late MedievalFlanders - Jan Dumolyn, 2006
Article
Law Enforcement in Medieval Germany - F. R. H. Du Boulay, 1978-10Article
States and rulers in later medieval Europe - Bernard Guenée, 1985Book | ch. 7
King, parliament and public finance in medieval England to 1369 - Gerald Leslie Harriss,1975
Book
The Justicarship of England 1258-1265 - C. H. KnowlesChapter
Kings, Peers and Parliament: Virtue and Co-rulership in Walter Burly's Commentarius in VIIILibros Politicorum Aristotelis
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Community, counsel and representation - Jeannine QuilletChapter
The making of the Middle Ages - R. W. Southern, 1953Book
Principles of government and politics in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 1961Book
Henry VI and the politics of kingship - John Lovett Watts, 1996Book
Questions to consider
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How did government administrations develop throughout Europe from the eleventhcentury?
In what ways did the wider community partake in politics during the middle ages?
Who participated in government?
How did the exercise of government differ between monarchies and city-states?
Was the exercise of government always to the benefit of the ruler?
Seminar 11: Community and Conciliarism (40 items)
Seminar documents (1 items)
Decree of Council of Pisa, 1409
Sacrosancta (Haec Sancta), Council of Constance, 1415
Decree Execrabilis, Pope Pius II, 1459
Essential reading (5 items)
The conciliar movement - Antony BlackChapter
Community, counsel and representation - Jeannine QuilletChapter
Introduction: the Conciliar Tradition and Ecumenical Dialogue - G. ChristiansonChapter
The conciliarist tradition: constitutionalism in the Catholic Church, 1300-1870 - FrancisOakley, 2008
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Foundations of the conciliar theory: the contribution of the Medieval canonists fromGratian to the Great Schism - Brian Tierney, 1955
Book
Further Reading (33 items)
Discourses on Livy - Niccolò Machiavelli, 1996Book | Bk. III, ch. 27, pp. 319-22
On the government of rulers: De regimine principum - Ptolemy of Lucca, 1997Book | Bk. 2, ch. 15, pp. 138-41 (on providing for paupers, etc.)
Unity, heresy and reform, 1378-1460: the conciliar response to the Great Schism - 1977Book | provides a number of useful documents in translation
Machiavelli: The Republican Citizen and the Author of 'the Prince' - Hans Baron, 1961Article
The Declaration of Arbroath: history, significance, setting - 2003Book
Documents of the Christian Church - Henry Bettenson, 1963Book
Political thought in Europe, 1250-1450 - Antony Black, 1992Book | chs. 1 and 6
Monarchy and community: political ideas in the later conciliar controversy, 1430-1450 -Antony Black, 1970
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Conciliarism and papalism - 1997Book
A history of mediaeval political theory in the west - R. W. Carlyle, A. J. Carlyle, 1915-1922Book | Vol. VI, Pt. 1, ch. 6; Pt. 2, ch. 6 [on representative institutions]
The church, the councils, & reform: the legacy of the fifteenth century - 2008Book
Medieval representation and consent: a study of early Parliaments in England and Ireland,with special reference to the 'Modus tenendi Parliamentum' - M. V. Clarke, 1936
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The nation of Scots and the Declaration of Arbroath (1320) - A. A. M. Duncan, 1970Book
Council and hierarchy: the political thought of William Durant the Younger - ConstantinFasolt, 1991
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Political thought from Gerson to Grotius, 1414-1625: seven studies - John Neville Figgis,1960
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The common good in late medieval political thought - M. S. Kempshall, 1999Book
A companion to Jean Gerson - Brian Patrick McGuire, 2006Book
Gerson and the Great Schism - John B. Morrall, 1960Book
Political thought in medieval times - John Brimyard Morrall, 1971Book | Ch. 8 'The age of ambiguity'
Kings, Peers, and Parliament: Virtue and Corulership in Walter Burlyey's Commentarius inVIII Libros Politicorum Aristotelis - C. J. Nederman
Chapter
Community and consent: the secular political theory of Marsiglio of Padua's Defensor pacis- Cary J. Nederman, 1994
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Magna Carta and the Declaration of Arbroath - R. Nicholson, 1965Article
The political thought of Pierre d'Ailly: the voluntarist tradition - Francis Oakley, 1964Book
Natural law, conciliarism and consent in the late Middle Ages: studies in ecclesiastical andintellectual history - Francis Oakley, 1984
Book
The conciliarist tradition - Francis Oakley, 2003Book
Jean Gerson: principles of church reform - Louis B. Pascoe, 1973Book
Church and reform: bishops, theologians, and canon lawyers in the thought of Pierre d'Ailly(1351-1420) - Louis B. Pascoe, 2004
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A history of political theory - George H. Sabine, 1951Book | ch. 16
The idea of natural rights, natural law, and church law, 1150-1625 - Brian Tierney, EmoryUniversity, 2001
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Origins of papal infallibility, 1150-1350: a study on the concepts of infallibility, sovereigntyand tradition in the Middle Ages - Brian Tierney, 1988
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Principles of government and politics in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2010Book
Wilks, M., 'Corporation and representation in the Defensor Pacis', Studia Gratiana, 15(1972)
The problem of sovereignty in the later Middle Ages: the papal monarchy with AugustinusTriumphus and the publicists - Michael Wilks, 1963
Book
Questions to consider
Compare and contrast ideas about the 'individual' and the 'common good'.
How were communities represented during the middle ages?
What role did 'counsel' play in mediæval government?
What gave rise to the conciliar movement?
Was conciliarism perceived as a threat to secular monarchies?
Why did the papacy triumph over the conciliar movement?
Seminar 12: Better to be loved or feared? Overview (1 items)
Giles of Rome, On Civil Government, ch. 36 in Medieval Political Theory, ed. Nederman, pp.151-2
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Brunetto Latini, Book of Treasure, Bk. III, ch. 96
Machiavelli, N., The Prince, ed. Q. Skinner and R. Price (Cambridge, 1988), chs. 16, 17, 18,19, 22
You are also expected to review your notes for the course, and think about the generalthemes we have covered over the semester. We will have a class debate on the topicabove.
Areas you should be prepared to discuss may include:
- the influence of classical learning on mediæval political theory
- the relationship between religion and secular politics
- the nature of political obligation
- the role of the individual and the community
- the relationship between authority and law
- similarities and differences between mediæval political thought and modernpolitical thought: continuity or change? what mediæval political concepts have survivedinto the modern age?
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