Ideal Government and the Mixed Constitution in the Middle Ages
James M. Blythe
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Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3F; HBLC1; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Political writers in the early modern period applied this idea to government in England, Venice, and Florence, and Americans used it in designing their constitution. In this history of political thought James Blythe investigates what happened to the concept of mixed constitution during the Middle Ages, when the work of the Greek historian Polybius, the source of many of the formal elements of early modern theory, was unknown in Latin. Although it is generally argued that Renaissance and early ... Read more
Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Political writers in the early modern period applied this idea to government in England, Venice, and Florence, and Americans used it in designing their constitution. In this history of political thought James Blythe investigates what happened to the concept of mixed constitution during the Middle Ages, when the work of the Greek historian Polybius, the source of many of the formal elements of early modern theory, was unknown in Latin. Although it is generally argued that Renaissance and early ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
362
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691632421
SKU
V9780691632421
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