1st Edition

The State, France and the Sixteenth Century

By Howell A. Lloyd Copyright 1983
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1983, this book discusses an important ideological development: the emergence of a new concept of the state as a substantive entity and the source of the ruler’s authority over his subjects. It maintains that such a concept emerged in French political thought of the sixteenth century and was promptly assimilated into existing systems of ideas. The book re-interprets... Read more

1.Historical Writing 2. Men in Groups 3. The Practice of Government 4. Economic Affairs 5. Heresy and Aristocracy 6. The Idea of the State. Epilogue.

Biography

Howell A. Lloyd 

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