Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Ideas of power and authority during the disputes between Philip IV and Boniface VIII
- Chapter 2 Dante Alighieri: the approach of political philosophy
- Chapter 3 Marsilius of Padua
- Chapter 4 Power and powerlessness in the poverty debates
- Chapter 5 The treatment of power in juristic thought
- Chapter 6 The power crisis during the Great Schism (1378–1417)
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Ideas of power and authority during the disputes between Philip IV and Boniface VIII
- Chapter 2 Dante Alighieri: the approach of political philosophy
- Chapter 3 Marsilius of Padua
- Chapter 4 Power and powerlessness in the poverty debates
- Chapter 5 The treatment of power in juristic thought
- Chapter 6 The power crisis during the Great Schism (1378–1417)
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Preface
This book is the result of my growing fascination with questions of power and authority. This marks something of a change in my attitude to political thought. When I undertook my first research project I was driven on by the idea of consent. Maybe, over time, I have become more sensitive to the realities of political life.
In writing this book I have benefited so much from discussion with other scholars and students, both graduate and undergraduate. Pride of place must go to all my students over the years at Bangor University: those who took my Special Subject, ‘Ideas of Church and State, 1294–1356’, and my course on ‘Medieval Political Thought’, through their highly intelligent and informed discussions, helped me enormously in the development of my ideas. I am grateful to Bangor University for its support in granting me study leave at an early stage of composition.
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- Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296–1417 , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011