Consent, Coercion, and Limit

The Medieval Origins of Parliamentary Democracy

The concepts of popular consent and limit as applied to the exercise of political authority are fundamental features of parliamentary democracy. Both these concepts played a role in medieval political theorizing, although the meaning and significance of political consent in this thought have not bee...

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Author:Arthur P. Monahan
Published: McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston and Montreal, 1987
E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1987
Total Pages:XX-345
Format:Book
Topic:- Doctrine > Social Life > [Sociologie. Cité terrestre. Politique] > [Influence] > Political Augustinianism
Status:Needs Review
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Summary:The concepts of popular consent and limit as applied to the exercise of political authority are fundamental features of parliamentary democracy. Both these concepts played a role in medieval political theorizing, although the meaning and significance of political consent in this thought have not been well understood. In a careful, scholarly, and readable survey of the major political texts from Augustin to Ockham, Arthur Monahan analyses the contribution of medieval thought to the development of these two concepts and to the correlative concept of coercion.