This book, first published in 1992, presents a comprehensive scholarly account of the development of European political thinking through the Renaissance and the reformation to the 'scientific revolution' and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. It is written by a highly distinguished team of contributors.

This volume examines the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than a thousand years.

A definitive reference work on Greek and Roman political thought from the age of Homer to late antiquity, first published in 2000.

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A full-scale study of the political thought of the Italian jurist, Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400).

Essays on the political 'languages' of natural law, classical republicanism, commerce and political science.

A history of philosophy from 1100-1600 concentrating on the Aristotelian tradition in the Latin Christian West. "will long remain the major guide to later medieval philosophy and related topics. Most of the essays are exciting and challenging, some of them truly brilliant." --Speculum