The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300–1650)

By Francis Oakley, Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus; President, Emeritus; and Senior Oakley Fellow. The last volume of a trilogy, this book is a study of the political thinkers of “the later Middle Ages, Renaissance, the Age of Reformation and religious wars, and the era that produced the Divine Right Theory of Kingship.”