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Citizens to Lords - A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Citizens to Lords - A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages (Paperback)
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In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the
history of political theory. She traces the development of the
Western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Middle
Ages in the perspective of social history-a significant departure
not only from the standard abstract history of ideas but also from
other contextual methods. Treating canonical thinkers as
passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not
simply in the context of political languages but as creative
responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and
place. She identifies a distinctive relation between property and
state in Western history and shows how the canon, while largely the
work of members or clients of dominant classes, was shaped by
complex interactions among proprietors, labourers and states.
Western political theory, Wodd argues, owes much of its vigour, and
also many ambiguities, to these complex and often contradictory
relations. From the Ancient Greek polis of Plato, Aristotle,
Aeschylus and Sophocles, through the Roman Republic of Cicero and
the Empire of St Paul and St Augustine, to the medieval world of
Averroes, Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, Citizens to Lords
offers a rich, dynamic exploration of thinkers and ideas that have
indelibly stamped our modern world.
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