To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective
governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of
the Gospels—most notably that "the first will be last, the last
will be first"—into practices of communal deliberation and the
election of superiors. Jacques Dalarun argues that these democratic
forms have profoundly influenced modern experiences of democracy,
in particular the idea of government not as domination but as
service. Dalarun undertakes meticulous textual analysis and
historical research into twelfth and thirteenth-century religious
movements—from Fontevraud and the Paraclete of Abelard and
Heloise through St. Dominic and St. Francis—that sought their
superiors from among the less exalted members of their communities
to chart how these experiments prefigured certain aspects of modern
democracies, those allowing individuals to find their way forward
as part of a collective. Wide ranging and deeply original,To Govern
Is to Serve highlights the history of the reciprocal bonds of
service and humility that underpin increasingly fragile democracies
in the twenty-first century.
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