The Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300) (The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages) by Francis Oakley ISBN 13: 9780300176339

Hardback. New. Part of the magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages, this second volume in the series explores kingship from the tenth century to the beginning of the fourteenth, showing how, under the stresses of religious and cultural development, kingship became an increasingly secular institution.