The Medieval Constitution of Liberty : Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Part 1: The Historical Backdrop
- 2. The Fall of Rome and the Rise of the Barbarian West
- 3. The Carolingian Project
- 4. The Peace of God
- Part 2: The Medieval Constitution: Theory and History
- 5. Political Property Rights and Constitutional Bargaining
- 6. Sovereignty and Self-Enforcing Political Property Rights
- 7. Polycentric Sovereignty
- 8. Why Western Europe? Why Not Elsewhere?
- Part 3: The Medieval Institutions of Liberty
- 9. Representative Assemblies
- 10. The Self-Governing Medieval City
- Part 4: The Rise of the Nation-State
- 11. The Tragedy of the Medieval Anticommons? State Capacity and the Origins of Economic Growth
- 12. What State Capacity Cannot Do
- 13. Postscript: The Road Away from Polycentric Sovereignty
- Appendix: Historiographical Notes
- Index.