The Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300)

By Francis Oakley, President Emeritus and Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas. Yale University Press, 2012. The second book in The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages, Oakley’s trilogy of medieval political thought, The Mortgage of the Past posits that the Middle Ages, contributed to rather than interrupted the development of secular thought.