Richard Hooker and the Medieval Political Tradition
Abstract
One of the ablest of the commentators on Western political thought, Alexander J. Carlyle, after concluding that the political civilization of Western Europe during the Middle Ages was homogeneous, observes that whatever may have been the cause of the later divergence of the political organization of England from that of the Continental countries, the medieval political systems were in their origins similar-we would almost say identical- and the ideas or principles they embodied were the same.The underlying unity of the political thought of Medieval Europe-Christendom-was made possible by the common acceptance of the Christian Idea.
Subject Area
Political science|Clergy|Medieval history
Recommended Citation
Scottino, Joseph Peter, "Richard Hooker and the Medieval Political Tradition" (1952). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28510078.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28510078
