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Walter Ullmann Celebrated Austrian scholar Walter Ullmann (19101983) was a leading authority in
the field of medieval political thought, and in particular legal theory. He settled in the
on Medieval United Kingdom after leaving Austria in the late 1930s and went on to hold positions
Political Theory at the University of Leeds and Trinity College, Cambridge as Professor of Medieval
History. Featured in this Routledge Revivals collection are the works: The Medieval Idea
Walter Ullmann of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna (1946), The Principles of Government and
January 2010: 216x138: 800pp:
Politics in the Middle Ages (1961), The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages
Set: 978-0-415-57154-8: 265.00 $450.00 (1966) and The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship (1969).
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The Principles of The Medieval Idea of The Carolingian
Government and Law as Represented Renaissance and the
Politics in the by Lucas de Penna
Idea of Kingship
Middle Ages Walter Ullmann
Walter Ullmann
Upon its original publication in 1946, this work
Walter Ullmann represented a new approach to medieval studies, In his Birkbeck Lectures, first published in 1969,
In many respects this book, first published in offering indispensable analysis to the historian of Professor Ullmann throws new light on a familiar
1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from legal, political and social ideas. Research into the subject. He shows that the Carolingian renaissance
contemporary historical writings. It is neither a original sources leads the author through unexplored had a wider and deeper meaning than has often
constitutional nor a political history, but a realms of medieval thought. By contrasting been thought, especially in its political and
historical definition and explanation of the main contemporary opinions with those of his central ideological aspects. Displaying his mastery of both
features which characterised the three kinds of figure, Lucas de Penna, he comprehensively presents primary and secondary sources, Professor Ullmann
government which can be discerned in the Middle the medieval idea of law then regarded as the presents an integrated history. He shows an epoch
Ages government by the Pope, the King, the concrete manifestation of abstract justice. The which holds a key to the better understanding not
People. The authors enviable knowledge of the intensity of medieval academic life is revealed in the only of the subsequent medieval centuries, but
sources clerical, secular, legal, constitutional, heated controversies, whilst medieval criminology also of modern Europe. This book opened new
liturgical, literary as well as of modern literature foreshadows modern developments. A significant vistas in political, ideological and social history as
enables him to demonstrate the principles upon discovery is the astonishingly great reliance which well as in historical theology and jurisprudence
which the papal government, the royal Continental scholars placed upon English thought. A and showed how relevant knowledge of the past
government, and the government of the people challenge to certain current misconceptions, this is for the understanding of the present.
rested. He shows how the traditional theocratic book shows the resourcefulness of medieval thinking
forms of government came to be supplanted by and the extent to which modern ideas were
forms of government based on the will of the foreshadowed in the fourteenth century, a time Selected Contents:
people. Although concerned with the Middle when the ideas of law and liberty were identical. 1. The Renaissance of Society
Ages, the book also contains much that is of 2. The Instruments of the Renaissance Lecture
topical interest to the discerning student of 3. Ecclesiology and Carolingian Rulership
modern institutions. Selected Contents: 4. The Rebirth of the Ruler
1. Introductory 5. The Kings Stunted Sovereignty
2. Lucas and his Work 6. The Renaissance of Europe: East and West
Selected Contents: 3. The Foundations and Nature of Law 7. The Carolingian Bequest
Part 1: The Pope 4. Customary Law
1. Introduction 5. The Application of Law
6. The Administration of Law January 2010: 216x138
2. Foundations
Hb: 978-0-415-57159-3: 75.00 $115.00
3. The Secular Prince and Papal Law 7. The Idea of Crime
eBook: 978-0-203-85566-9
4. Assessment of Papal Principles 8. Social and Political Conceptions.
Part 2: The King
5. Theocratic Kingship January 2010: 216x138
6. Limitations of Theocratic Kingship Hb: 978-0-415-57155-5: 75.00 $115.00
7. Feudal Kingship in England eBook: 978-0-203-85569-0
8. Theocratic Kingship in France
Part 3: The People
9. Popular Associations
10. Towards Populism
11. The Legislative Sovereignty of the People
12. Applications and Implications of Populism
Professor Ullmann has used his unrivalled knowledge of the medieval canon and
civil law and political theory to suggest how man emerged from the Middle Ages as
an individual with rights guaranteed by law universally respected as supreme.
The Canadian Historical Review
With his usual mastery of the sources and interpretive skill, Ullmann provides here
a particularly instructive analysis of the historical emergence of that indispensable
citizen upon whom the assumptions of modern democracy rest.
The Virginia Quarterly Review
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