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From personal duties towards personal rights : late medieval and early modern political thought, 1300-1600 /

Focusing on the concepts of popular consent, representation, limit, and resistance to tyranny as essential features of modern theories of parliamentary democracy, Monahan shows a continuity in use of these concepts across the alleged divide between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and Reformation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Monahan, Arthur P., 1928-2006
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994.
Colección:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Focusing on the concepts of popular consent, representation, limit, and resistance to tyranny as essential features of modern theories of parliamentary democracy, Monahan shows a continuity in use of these concepts across the alleged divide between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and Reformation. Each of the four parts of the book deals with a specific historical event or phenomenon that provides a focus for the political writings of that period.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxiv, 445 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-430) and index.
ISBN:9780773564114
077356411X
1282856499
9781282856493
9786612856495
6612856491
ISSN:0711-0995 ;