Abstract

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Text, Context, Temperament and Tradition 2. Celestial Hierarchies Revisited: Ullmann's Vision of Medieval Politics 3. Verius est licet difficilius: Tierney's Foundations of the Conciliar Theory after Forty Years 4. Legitimation by Consent: The Question of the Medieval Roots 5. Anxieties of Influence: Skinner, Figgis, Conciliarism and Early-Modern Constitutionalism 6. Complexities of Context: Gerson, Bellarmine, Sarpi, Richer and the Venetian Interdict of 1606-1607 7. Locke, Natural Law, and God: Again 8. Jacobean Political Theology: Holdsworth, McIlwain and the Absolute and Ordinary Powers of the King 9. Adamantine Fetters of Destiny: The Absolute and Ordained Power of God and King in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 10. Epilogue: Oakeshott's Will and Artifice and the Mirror of Eternity Index of Names and Places Subject Index Bibliography

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