Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)Volume 1 by Oakley, Francis

Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)Volume 1 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300155389)

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Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)Volume 1 by Oakley, Francis

Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)Volume 1

$72.00
Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)Volume 1 by Oakley, Francis

Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)Volume 1

$72.00
Format: Hardcover
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In this book--the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought--Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late Roman antiquity and of the early European middle ages. By challenging the popular belief that the ancient Greek and Roman worlds provided the origins of our inherently secular politics, Oakley revises our understanding of the history of political theory in a fundamental and far-reaching manner that will reverberate for decades. This book lays the foundations for Oakley's next two volumes, which will develop his argument that it is in the Latin middle ages that we must seek the ideological roots of modern political secularism.

Author: Francis Oakley
ISBN-10: 0300155387
ISBN-13: 9780300155389
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2010
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d

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Choice 01/01/2011

By Francis Oakley
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Francis Oakley is President Emeritus and Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus, at Williams College.

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