Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought

Chris Jones FSA, FRHistS is an Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand. His research explores the history of political thought in the later Middle Ages. His edited books include John of Paris: Beyond Royal and Papal Power (2015). Takashi Shogimen FRHistS MAE is Professor of History at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He has published widely on medieval European and modern Japanese political thought including Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages (2007).

1. Medieval & Renaissance Political Thought: Past, Present, … and Future? An Essay.

Chris Jones & Takashi Shogimen

2. Medieval Ideas and the Ethics of Listening.

Clare Monagle

Part 1: Historiographical Problems

3. The Jewish Reinterpretation of the Hebrew Prophet: From Medieval Prophet-Philosopher to Renaissance Prophet-Statesman.

Gary Remer

4. The Scientist of Politics? The Typology of Princedoms in The Prince and Machiavelli’s Ambition as a Theorist of Human Action.

Bee Yun

5. The Twelve Abuses of the Age: Ethical and Political Theory in Early Medieval Ireland and its Influence.

Constant J. Mews

Part 2: Fresh Interpretations

6. The Mirror Compiled: Roger Waltham’s Compendium morale and Cary Nederman’s Medieval English Tradition of Political Thought.

Charles F. Briggs

7. Bonum commune and its Uses in Political Discourse at the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century.

Roberto Lambertini

8. Machiavelli’s Representation of the People in the Ciompi Revolt.

Benedetto Fontana

Part 3: New Debates

9. Classical Republicanism in the Age of Machiavelli.

Paul A. Rahe

10. A Medieval Scholastic Job Description: Diversi sed non adversi.

Marcia L. Colish

11. Heresy and Toleration in the Early Fourteenth Century: Marsilius of Padua and William of Ockham Reconsidered.

Takashi Shogimen

12. Consent, Power, and the Political Community: Communal versus Individual "Rights" in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.

Jason Taliadoros

Part 4: Responses

13. The Study of Political Texts and Texts of Political Thought: A Methodological Afterword.

Frédérique Lachaud

14. Some Reflections on the Future(s) of Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought.

Cary J. Nederman