Empty bottles of gentilism : kingship and the divine in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (to 1050) /
Francis Oakley.
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
- xiii, 306 p. ; 25 cm.
- The emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages ; v. 1 .
- Emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages ; v. 1 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologomenon: the cosmic kingship in Mediterranean antiquity. Historical orientation: Hellenic, Hellenistic, Hebraic, and roman antiquity ; Ancient affections: the archaic pattern of royal sacrality and the Hellenistic legacy ; Abrahamic departures: the Hebraic and Christian contribution -- The long twilight of the sacral kingship in Greek and Latin Christendom (c. 300-c.1050). Historical orientation: the heirs of Rome ; Patristic affirmation: the Greek fathers and the Eusebian tradition in Christian Rome, Byzantium, and Russia ; Patristic reservation: the Latin fathers from Tertullain to Augustine ; The early Medieval west (i): sacral kingship in the Germanic successor kingdoms ; The early Medieval west (ii): fidelity, consent, and the emergence of "feudal" institutions -- The early Medieval west (iii): the clerical order and the rise of the papal monarchy.