Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Francis Oakley

Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Francis Oakley

320 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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In this book—the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought—Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late ...

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