On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781400828579 (1400828570)
Publish date: July 1st 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 136
Edition language: English
An important book on the (relatively) late development of the idea of the State. Since Mogens Hansen has argued repeatedly and insistently -- and quite wrongly, imo -- that the ancient *polis* can and should be understood as representing a State (in the modern sense) -- rather than merely as the mor...