Political Theories of the Middle Age - Couverture souple

Gierke, Otto

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1855064782 ISBN 13 : 9781855064782

Editeur : Thoemmes Continuum, 1996

Synopsis

This is a translation of Gierke's "Die publicistischen Lehren des Mittelalters", first published in 1881, which was a section of Volume 3 of his "Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht". The text includes an introduction by Maitland who undertook the translation to support his distinction between the concept of trust and what was known as legal corporation. The book is part of Thoemmes' "Key Texts" series which are facsimile paperback editions of books which have been unavailable. The series gives particular emphasis to less popularized works of major thinkers in the history of ideas. Classic monographs are also featured.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This re-issue of F. W. Maitland's translation of a vital section from Otto Gierke's monumental Das Deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht makes available once again one of the seminal texts in the historiography of political thought. Famed, inter alia, for the elegance and lucidity of Maitland's own expository introduction, Political Theories of the Middle Age is concerned in essence with the medieval development of the doctrine of State and Corporation - a concept which, as Maitland indicates, has been prone to misunderstanding by English minds versed in the tradition of the common law. Gierke identifies the peculiar characteristic of medieval political thought as its vision of the universe as one articulated whole, and every being, whether a joint-being (community) or a single-being - as both a part and a whole: his text examines the potentially revolutionary effect upon this of certain crucial intellectual intrusions, derived in part from Roman Law, described by Gierke as 'ancient-modern'.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published in 1900. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thoemmes Continuum
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1855064782
• ISBN 13: 9781855064782
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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