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W ALTER AL TER U ULLMANN ON MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THEORY Walter Ullmann January 2010: 216x138: 800pp: Set: 978-0-415-57154-8: £265.00 $450.00
Celebrated Austrian scholar Walter Ullmann (1910–1983) was a leading authority in the field of medieval political thought, and in particular legal theory. He settled in the United Kingdom after leaving Austria in the late 1930s and went on to hold positions at the University of Leeds and Trinity College, Cambridge as Professor of Medieval History. Featured in this Routledge Revivals collection are the works: The Medieval Idea of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna (1946), The Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages (1961), The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages (1966) and The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship (1969).
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THE PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE A GES
THE MEDIEVAL I DEA OF L AW AS R EPRESENTED BY L UCAS DE P ENNA Walter Ullmann
Walter Ullmann In many respects this book, first published in 1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from contemporary historical writings. It is neither a constitutional nor a political history, but a historical definition and explanation of the main features which characterised the three kinds of government which can be discerned in the Middle Ages – government by the Pope, the King, the People. The author’s enviable knowledge of the sources – clerical, secular, legal, constitutional, liturgical, literary – as well as of modern literature enables him to demonstrate the principles upon which the papal government, the royal government, and the government of the people rested. He shows how the traditional theocratic forms of government came to be supplanted by forms of government based on the will of the people. Although concerned with the Middle Ages, the book also contains much that is of topical interest to the discerning student of modern institutions.
SELECTED CONTENTS: Part 1: The Pope 1. Introduction 2. Foundations 3. The Secular Prince and Papal Law 4. Assessment of Papal Principles Part 2: The King 5. Theocratic Kingship 6. Limitations of Theocratic Kingship 7. Feudal Kingship in England 8. Theocratic Kingship in France Part 3: The People 9. Popular Associations 10. Towards Populism 11. The Legislative Sovereignty of the People 12. Applications and Implications of Populism
Upon its original publication in 1946, this work represented a new approach to medieval studies, offering indispensable analysis to the historian of legal, political and social ideas. Research into the original sources leads the author through unexplored realms of medieval thought. By contrasting contemporary opinions with those of his central figure, Lucas de Penna, he comprehensively presents the medieval idea of law – then regarded as the concrete manifestation of abstract justice. The intensity of medieval academic life is revealed in the heated controversies, whilst medieval criminology foreshadows modern developments. A significant discovery is the astonishingly great reliance which Continental scholars placed upon English thought. A challenge to certain current misconceptions, this book shows the resourcefulness of medieval thinking and the extent to which modern ideas were foreshadowed in the fourteenth century, a time when the ideas of law and liberty were identical.
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Introductory Lucas and his Work The Foundations and Nature of Law Customary Law The Application of Law The Administration of Law The Idea of Crime Social and Political Conceptions.
THE C AROLINGIAN R ENAISSANCE AND THE IDEA OF K INGSHIP Walter Ullmann In his Birkbeck Lectures, first published in 1969, Professor Ullmann throws new light on a familiar subject. He shows that the Carolingian renaissance had a wider and deeper meaning than has often been thought, especially in its political and ideological aspects. Displaying his mastery of both primary and secondary sources, Professor Ullmann presents an integrated history. He shows an epoch which holds a key to the better understanding not only of the subsequent medieval centuries, but also of modern Europe. This book opened new vistas in political, ideological and social history as well as in historical theology and jurisprudence and showed how relevant knowledge of the past is for the understanding of the present.
SELECTED C ONTENTS: 1. The Renaissance of Society 2. The Instruments of the Renaissance Lecture 3. Ecclesiology and Carolingian Rulership 4. The Rebirth of the Ruler 5. The King’s Stunted Sovereignty 6. The Renaissance of Europe: East and West 7. The Carolingian Bequest
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January 2010: 216x138 Hb: 978-0-415-57156-2: £75.00 $115.00 Book: 978-0-203-85568-3
‘No medieval scholar today surpasses Ullmann in mastery of political theory propounded by civil, canon and feudal law texts ... The book is valuable for all students of medieval civilisation and the history of political and legal thought.’ – The Political Science Quarterly ‘Professor Ullmann has used his unrivalled knowledge of the medieval canon and civil law and political theory to suggest how man emerged from the Middle Ages as an individual with rights guaranteed by law universally respected as supreme.’ – The Canadian Historical Review ‘With his usual mastery of the sources and interpretive skill, Ullmann provides here a particularly instructive analysis of the historical emergence of that indispensable citizen upon whom the assumptions of modern democracy rest.’ – The Virginia Quarterly Review www.routledge.com/books/series/Routledge_Revivals
AVAILABLE AND FORTHCOMING FROM ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS MODERN HISTORIANS ON BRITISH HISTORY 1485–1945 A Critical Bibliography 1945–1969 G.R. Elton Series: Routledge Revivals The twenty-five year period following the Second World War saw an enormous expansion of activity in the writing of the history of modern Britain, and with that expansion a major transformation of the state of knowledge in many parts of the area. First published in 1970, this Revivals reissue, which includes an extensive coverage of books and a reasonable selection of articles, endeavours both to survey the work done and to reduce it to some comprehensible order. It indicates achievements and probable lines of development, and collects the materials that have grown around the main controversies. Omitted are local history (in the main) and the history of empire and commonwealth, except where the latter really arises out of the affairs of the mother country. There are special sections on social history, the history of ideas, Scotland and Ireland.
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Francesco Gabrieli Series: Routledge Revivals ‘Professor Gabrieli has been completely successful in presenting a precise, vivid and impartial picture of these two centuries of relations between the Arabic-speaking world of the Middle East and the Christian world of Europe’ – Asian Affairs The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happenings were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two centuries of the Crusades. First published in English in 1969, this book presents ‘the other side’ of the Holy War, offering the first English translation of contemporary Arab accounts of the fighting between Muslim and Christian. Extracts are drawn from seventeen different authors encompassing a multitude of sources: • the general histories of the Muslim world • the chronicles of cities, regions and their dynasties • contemporary biographies and records of famous deeds.
SELECTED CONTENTS: 1. Introduction 2. Works of Reference 3. Sources 4. General 5. The Sixteenth Century (1485–1603) 6. The Seventeenth Century (1603–1714) 7. The Eighteenth Century (1714–1815) 8. The Nineteenth Century (1815–1914) 9. The Twentieth Century (1914–1945) 10. Social History 11. History of Ideas 12. Scotland 13. Ireland
Overall, this book gives a sweeping and stimulating view of the Crusades seen through Arab eyes.
SELECTED CONTENTS: Part 1: From Godfrey to Saladin Part 2: Saladin and the Third Crusade Part 3: The Ayyubids and the Invasion of Egypt Part 4: The Mamluks and the Liquidation of the Crusades September 2009: 216x 138: 402pp Hb: 978-0-415-56332-1: £80.00 $140.00 eBook: 978-0-203-09250-7
December 2009: 216x138: 252pp Hb: 978-0-415-57367-2: £70.00 $105.00 eBook: 978-0-203-85424-2
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