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Author Wood, Ellen Meiksins.

Title Citizens to lords : a social history of western political thought from antiquity to the Middle Ages / Ellen Meiksins Wood
Published London : Verso, 2008

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Description 245 pages ; 24 cm
Contents The Social History of Political Theory -- The Ancient Greek Polis -- From Polis to Empire -- The Middle Ages
Summary "Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political language but as creative responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and place. She identifies a distinctive relation between property and state in Western history and shows how the canon, while largely the work of members or clients of dominant classes, was shaped by complex interactions among proprietors, labourers and states. Western political theory, Wood argues, owes much of its vigour, and also many ambiguities, to these complex and often contradictory relations." "From the Ancient Greek polis of Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus and Sophocles, through the Roman Republic of Cicero and the Empire of St Paul and St Augustine, to the medieval world of Averroes, Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua and William of Ockham, Citizens to Lords offers a rich, dynamic exploration of thinkers and ideas that have indelibly stamped our world."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Includes index
Subject Political science -- History -- To 1500.
ISBN 9781844672431