TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oakley,Francis
TI  - Empty bottles of gentilism: kingship and the divine in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (to 1050)
T2  - The emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages
SN  - 9780300155389 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - JC375 .O34 2010
U1  - 321.6 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Haven [Conn.]
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Local
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Church and state
KW  - Europe
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologomenon: the cosmic kingship in Mediterranean antiquity. Historical orientation: Hellenic, Hellenistic, Hebraic, and roman antiquity ; Ancient affections: the archaic pattern of royal sacrality and the Hellenistic legacy ; Abrahamic departures: the Hebraic and Christian contribution -- The long twilight of the sacral kingship in Greek and Latin Christendom (c. 300-c.1050). Historical orientation: the heirs of Rome ; Patristic affirmation: the Greek fathers and the Eusebian tradition in Christian Rome, Byzantium, and Russia ; Patristic reservation: the Latin fathers from Tertullain to Augustine ; The early Medieval west (i): sacral kingship in the Germanic successor kingdoms ; The early Medieval west (ii): fidelity, consent, and the emergence of "feudal" institutions -- The early Medieval west (iii): the clerical order and the rise of the papal monarchy
ER  -