PART I. Historiographies of the Early European
Tradition: Continuity and Change
i. The Legacy of Walter Ullmann 3
2. Quentin Skinner's State: Historical Methodology
and the Formation of a European Tradition 13
3. Pathologies of Continuity: The Neo-Figgisites 29
4. A Middle Path: Alexander Passerin d'Entr&ves 49
PART II. Dissenting Voices and the Limits of Power
5. Toleration and Community: Functionalist
Foundations of Liberty 63
6. The Royal Will and the Baronial Bridle:
The Bractonian Contribution 81
7. Political Representation: Modern Theory and
Medieval Practices 99
8. For Love and Money: Theorizing Revolt in
Fourteenth-Century Europe 122
PART III. Republican Self-Governance and
Universal Empire
9. Brunetto Latini's Commerical Republicanism 141
o1. Marsiglio of Padua: Between Empire and Republic 16o
11. Translatio Imperii: Medieval and Modern 177
12. Christianity and Republicanism: Another Look 190
PART IV. The Virtues of Necessity: Economic Principles of Politics
13. The Origins of "Policy" in Twelfth-Century England 201
14. Economic Liberty and the Politics of Wealth 222
15. Money and Community: Nicole Oresme 235
16. Christine de Pizan's Expanding Body Politic 248
PART V. Modern Receptions of Medieval Ideas
17. The Persistence of Economic Nationalism: John Fortescue 261
S8. Virtu, Foresight, and Grace: Machiavelli's Medieval Moments 277
19. Arguing Sovereignty in the Seventeenth Century:
Bracton's Readers 304
20. Hegel on the Medieval Foundations of the Modern State 323