{"product_id":"to-govern-is-to-serve-jacques-dalarun-9781501767852","title":"To Govern Is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Govern Is to Serve\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels--most notably that \"the first will be last, the last will be first\"--into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors.\u003c\/b\u003e Jacques Dalarun argues that these democratic forms have profoundly influenced modern experiences of democracy, in particular the idea of government not as domination but as service. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDalarun undertakes meticulous textual analysis and historical research into twelfth and thirteenth-century religious movements--from Fontevraud and the Paraclete of Abelard and Heloise through St. Dominic and St. Francis--that sought their superiors from among the less exalted members of their communities to chart how these experiments prefigured certain aspects of modern democracies, those allowing individuals to find their way forward as part of a collective. Wide ranging and deeply original, \u003ci\u003eTo Govern Is to Serve\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the history of the reciprocal bonds of service and humility that underpin increasingly fragile democracies in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacques Dalarun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501767852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501767852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Jacques Dalarun","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071540982015,"sku":"9781501767852","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e7152d9-d64f-479f-8f20-925e50734e0e.jpg?v=1685436712","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/to-govern-is-to-serve-jacques-dalarun-9781501767852","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}