On The Medieval Origins Of The Modern State
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780691051833 (0691051836)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 114
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...