Die jüngere archäologische und bibelwissenschaftliche Forschung stellt das traditionelle Bild der Geschichte des antiken Israel infrage. Der vorliegende Band führt neueste Forschungsergebnisse beider Wissenschaftsdisziplinen zusammen un. Recent archaeological and biblical resea…
It is commonly assumed that the rise of modern democracies put an end to the spectacular and ceremonial aspects of political rule that were so characteristic of monarchies and other earlier regimes. The medieval idea that the king had two bodies - a mortal physical body and an e…
It is commonly assumed that the rise of modern democracies put an end to the spectacular and ceremonial aspects of political rule that were so characteristic of monarchies and other earlier regimes. The medieval idea that the king had two bodies - a mortal physical body and an e…
"Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, court preacher to Louis XIV, argues in the Politics that a general society of the entire human race, governed by Christian charity, has given way to the necessity of politics, law and absolute hereditary monarchy - seen as natural, universal and divinel…
by Dante Alighieri, Shaw, Prue
fromCambridge texts in the history of political thought
This is the first new translation for forty years of a fascinating work of political theory. Dante's Monarchy addresses the fundamental question of what form of political organization best suits human nature. It embodies a political vision of startling originality and power, and…
This is the first new translation for forty years of a fascinating work of political theory. Dante's Monarchy addresses the fundamental question of what form of political organization best suits human nature. It embodies a political vision of startling originality and power, and…
A pioneering exploration of the phenomenon of the composite state in Eighteenth-century Europe. Employing a comparative approach, it combines the findings of new research on Ireland with broader syntheses of major composite states in Europe -- those of France, Austria and Poland…
