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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Prologue: What is the West About?
The World of Antiquity
1. The Ancient Family
2. The Ancient City
3. The Ancient Cosmos
A Moral Revolution
4. The World Turned Upside Down: Paul
5. The Truth Within: Moral Equality
6. Heroism Redefined
7. A New Form of Association: Monasticism
8. The Weakness of the Will: Augustine
Towards the Idea of Fundamental Law
9. Shaping New Attitudes and Habits
10. Distinguishing Spiritual from Temporal Power
11. Barbarian Codes, Roman Law and Christian Intuitions
12. The Carolingian Compromise
Europe Acquires its Identity
13. Why Feudalism did not Recreate Ancient Slavery
14. Fostering the ‘Peace of God’
15. The Papal Revolution: A Constitution for Europe?
16. Natural Law and Natural Rights
A New Model of Government
17. Centralization and the New Sense of Justice
18. The Democratizing of Reason
19. Steps towards the Creation of Nation-States
20. Urban Insurrections
The Birth Pangs of Modern Liberty
21. Popular Aspirations and the Friars
22. The Defence of Egalitarian Moral Intuitions
23. God’s Freedom and Human Freedom Joined: Ockham
24. Struggling for Representative Government in the Church
25. Dispensing with the Renaissance
Epilogue: Christianity and Secularism
Select Bibliography and Endnotes
Index
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