Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State

Auteur: Harding, Alan (Emeritus Professor of Medieval History and Honorary Fellow of History at the University of Liverpool and Honorary Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
The State is the most powerful of political ideas but where does it come from? This broad-ranging new study traces the history of the word and the concept back to the systems of law and justice created by medieval kings and shows how legal institutions acquired political force.

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The State is the most powerful of political ideas but where does it come from? This broad-ranging new study traces the history of the word and the concept back to the systems of law and justice created by medieval kings and shows how legal institutions acquired political force.
ISBN / EAN 9780198219583
Auteur Harding, Alan (Emeritus Professor of Medieval History and Honorary Fellow of History at the University of Liverpool and Honorary Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh)
Editeur Oxford University Press