Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
Copyright
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
1. The Polis and the Khora
Autochthony and the Myth of Origins
Antigone and the Polis
The Reforms of Kleisthenes
Plato’s Laws
Aristotle’s Politics
Site and Community
2. From Urbis to Imperium
Caesar and the Terrain of War
Cicero and the Res Publica
The Historians: Sallust, Livy, Tacitus
Augustus and Imperium
The Limes of the Imperium
Part II
3. The Fracturing of the West
Augustine’s Two Cities
Boethius and Isidore of Seville
The Barbarian Tribes and National Histories
Land Politics in Beowulf
4. The Reassertion of Empire
The Donation of Constantine
The Accession of Charlemagne
Cartography from Rome to Jerusalem
The Limits of Feudalism
5. The Pope’s Two Swords
John of Salisbury and the Body of the Republic
Two Swords: Spiritual and Temporal Power
The Rediscovery of Aristotle
Thomas Aquinas and the Civitas
6. Challenges to the Papacy
Unam Sanctum: Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair
Dante: Commedia and Monarchia
Marsilius of Padua and the Rights of the City
William of Ockham and the Politics of Poverty
Part III
7. The Rediscovery of Roman Law
The Labors of Justinian and the Glossators
Bartolus of Sassoferrato and the Territorium
Baldus de Ubaldis and the Civitas-Populus
Rex Imperator in Regno Suo
8. Renaissance and Reconnaissance
Machiavelli and Lo Stato
The Politics of Reformation
Bodin, République, Sovereignty
Botero and Ragione di Stato
King Lear: “Interest of Territory, Cares of State”
9. The Extension of the State
The Consolidation of the Reformation
The Geometry of the Political
The Divine Right of Kings: Hobbes, Filmer, and Locke
“Master of a Territory”
Coda: Territory as a Political Technology
Notes
Index
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →