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 author's 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. Medieval history is made
understandable to modern man by modern methods.
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