TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elden,Stuart
TI  - The birth of territory
SN  - 9780226202563
AV  - JC319 .E44 2013
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Political geography
KW  - Geography, Ancient
KW  - Geography, Medieval
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I: The Polis and the Khora : Autochthony and the myth of origins; Antigone and the Polis; The reforms of Kleisthenes; Plato's Law; Aristotle's Politics; Site and community; --From Urbis to Imperium : Caesar and the terrain of war; Cicero and the Res publica; The historians: Sallust, Livey, Tacitus; Augustus and Imperium; The Limes of the Imperium; --Part II: The fracturing of the west : Augustine's two cities; Boethius and Isidore of Seville; The barbarian tribes and national histories; Land politics in Beowulf; --The reassertion of empire : The donation of Constantine; The accession of Charlemagne; Cartography from Rome to Jerusalem; The limits of feudalism; --The pope's two swords : John of Salisbury and the body of the republic; Two swords: spiritual and temporal power; The rediscovery of Aristotle; Thomas Aquinas and the Civitas; --Challenges to the papacy : Unam sanctum: Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair; Dante: Commedia and Monarchia; Marsilius of Padua and the rights of the city; William of Ockham and the politics of poverty; --Part III: The rediscovery of Roman law : The labors of Justinian and the glossators; Bartolus of Sassoferrato and the Territorium; Baldus de Ubaldis and the CIvitas-Populus; Rex Imperator in Regno Suo; --Renaissance and reconnaissance : Machiavelli and Lo Stato; The politics of Reformation; Bodin, République, sovereignty; Botero and Ragione di Stato; King Lear: "Interest of territory, cares of state"; --The extension of the state : The consolation of the Reformation; The geometry of the political; The divine right of kings: Hobbes, Filmer, and Locke; "Master of a territory"; --Coda: Territory as a political technology
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