Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State

By Alan Harding

"The State" is the most powerful of political ideas but where does it come from? This broad-ranging new study traces the history of the word and the concept back to the systems of law and justice created by medieval kings and shows how legal institutions acquired political force.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019821958X
• ISBN13: 9780198219583
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"