Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State
Book Details
Author(s)
Alan Harding
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN / ASIN
019821958X
ISBN-13
9780198219583
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Sales Rank
#3,714,476
Category
Law
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
"The State" is the most powerful of political ideas but where does it come from? This broad-ranging new study traces the history of the word and the concept back to the systems of law and justice created by medieval kings and shows how legal institutions acquired political force.
