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Walter Ullmann Celebrated Austrian scholar Walter Ullmann (19101983) was a leading authority in
the field of medieval political thought, and in particular legal theory. He settled in the
on Medieval United Kingdom after leaving Austria in the late 1930s and went on to hold positions
Political Theory at the University of Leeds and Trinity College, Cambridge as Professor of Medieval
History. Featured in this Routledge Revivals collection are the works: The Medieval Idea
Walter Ullmann of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna (1946), The Principles of Government and
January 2010: 216x138: 800pp:
Politics in the Middle Ages (1961), The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages
Set: 978-0-415-57154-8: 265.00 $450.00 (1966) and The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship (1969).

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The Principles of
Government and
Politics in the
Middle Ages
Walter Ullmann
In many respects this book, first published in
1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from
contemporary historical writings. It is neither a
constitutional nor a political history, but a
historical definition and explanation of the main
features which characterised the three kinds of
government which can be discerned in the Middle
Ages government by the Pope, the King, the
People. The authors enviable knowledge of the
sources clerical, secular, legal, constitutional,
liturgical, literary as well as of modern literature
enables him to demonstrate the principles upon
which the papal government, the royal
government, and the government of the people
rested. He shows how the traditional theocratic
forms of government came to be supplanted by
forms of government based on the will of the
people. Although concerned with the Middle
Ages, the book also contains much that is of
topical interest to the discerning student of
modern institutions.
Selected Contents:
Part 1: The Pope
1. Introduction
2. Foundations
3. The Secular Prince and Papal Law
4. Assessment of Papal Principles
Part 2: The King
5. Theocratic Kingship
6. Limitations of Theocratic Kingship
7. Feudal Kingship in England
8. Theocratic Kingship in France
Part 3: The People
9. Popular Associations
10. Towards Populism
11. The Legislative Sovereignty of the People
12. Applications and Implications of Populism
The Medieval Idea of The Carolingian
Law as Represented Renaissance and the
by Lucas de Penna
Idea of Kingship
Walter Ullmann
Upon its original publication in 1946, this work
represented a new approach to medieval studies,
offering indispensable analysis to the historian of
legal, political and social ideas. Research into the
original sources leads the author through unexplored
realms of medieval thought. By contrasting
contemporary opinions with those of his central
figure, Lucas de Penna, he comprehensively presents
the medieval idea of law then regarded as the
concrete manifestation of abstract justice. The
intensity of medieval academic life is revealed in the
heated controversies, whilst medieval criminology
foreshadows modern developments. A significant
discovery is the astonishingly great reliance which
Continental scholars placed upon English thought. A
challenge to certain current misconceptions, this
book shows the resourcefulness of medieval thinking
and the extent to which modern ideas were
foreshadowed in the fourteenth century, a time
when the ideas of law and liberty were identical.
Selected Contents:
1. Introductory
2. Lucas and his Work
3. The Foundations and Nature of Law
4. Customary Law
5. The Application of Law
6. The Administration of Law
7. The Idea of Crime
8. Social and Political Conceptions.
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Walter Ullmann
In his Birkbeck Lectures, first published in 1969,
Professor Ullmann throws new light on a familiar
subject. He shows that the Carolingian renaissance
had a wider and deeper meaning than has often
been thought, especially in its political and
ideological aspects. Displaying his mastery of both
primary and secondary sources, Professor Ullmann
presents an integrated history. He shows an epoch
which holds a key to the better understanding not
only of the subsequent medieval centuries, but
also of modern Europe. This book opened new
vistas in political, ideological and social history as
well as in historical theology and jurisprudence
and showed how relevant knowledge of the past
is for the understanding of the present.
Selected Contents:
1. The Renaissance of Society
2. The Instruments of the Renaissance Lecture
3. Ecclesiology and Carolingian Rulership
4. The Rebirth of the Ruler
5. The Kings Stunted Sovereignty
6. The Renaissance of Europe: East and West
7. The Carolingian Bequest
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No medieval scholar today surpasses Ullmann in mastery of political theory

propounded by civil, canon and feudal law texts ... The book is valuable for all
students of medieval civilisation and the history of political and legal thought.
The Political Science Quarterly

Professor Ullmann has used his unrivalled knowledge of the medieval canon and
civil law and political theory to suggest how man emerged from the Middle Ages as
an individual with rights guaranteed by law universally respected as supreme.
The Canadian Historical Review

With his usual mastery of the sources and interpretive skill, Ullmann provides here
a particularly instructive analysis of the historical emergence of that indispensable
citizen upon whom the assumptions of modern democracy rest.
The Virginia Quarterly Review

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History 14851945 Francesco Gabrieli
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A Critical Bibliography 19451969
Professor Gabrieli has been completely successful in presenting
G.R. Elton a precise, vivid and impartial picture of these two centuries of
Series: Routledge Revivals relations between the Arabic-speaking world of the Middle East
and the Christian world of Europe Asian Affairs
The twenty-five year period following the Second World War saw an
enormous expansion of activity in the writing of the history of modern Britain, The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in
and with that expansion a major transformation of the state of knowledge in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happenings were faithfully
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includes an extensive coverage of books and a reasonable selection of articles, published in English in 1969, this book presents the other side of the Holy
endeavours both to survey the work done and to reduce it to some War, offering the first English translation of contemporary Arab accounts of the
comprehensible order. It indicates achievements and probable lines of fighting between Muslim and Christian.
development, and collects the materials that have grown around the main
Extracts are drawn from seventeen different authors encompassing a
controversies. Omitted are local history (in the main) and the history of empire
multitude of sources:
and commonwealth, except where the latter really arises out of the affairs of
the mother country. There are special sections on social history, the history of the general histories of the Muslim world
ideas, Scotland and Ireland. the chronicles of cities, regions and their dynasties
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1. Introduction seen through Arab eyes.
2. Works of Reference
3. Sources
4. General
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5. The Sixteenth Century (14851603) Part 1: From Godfrey to Saladin
6. The Seventeenth Century (16031714) Part 2: Saladin and the Third Crusade
7. The Eighteenth Century (17141815) Part 3: The Ayyubids and the Invasion of Egypt
8. The Nineteenth Century (18151914) Part 4: The Mamluks and the Liquidation of the Crusades
9. The Twentieth Century (19141945)
10. Social History
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