From Hierarchy to Anarchy: Territory and Politics before Westphalia (The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought)
Language: English
Pages: 269
ISBN: 0230616712
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This book considers the rise of territoriality in international relations. Larkins takes the reader on a tour that moves from the mental horizons of Medieval European thought to the Renaissance. The end product is a theoretical and historical account of a momentous transformation that ultimately gives rise to the territorial state.
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Place. She tells Dante that although men's souls, the spheres and the angels were created directly by God and are thus immortal, the elementsfand their compounds, as well as the souls of plants and animals, were created by the intermediate agencies of the heavenly bodies.54 The order of thi-?gs is tightly circumscribed: all things, whatever their mode, observe an inner order. It is this form that makes the universe resemble God . . . . all Being within this order, by the laws of its own nature is.
Were as radical as Dante's notion of humana civilitas. Although one supreme head was required to guarantee the unity of the Catholic faith and the common identity of the Christian peoples, "this purpose does not require that the faithful be united in any common state (politia communi). There can be different ways of living and different kinds of state (politic) conforming to differences in climate, language and the condition of men, with what is suitable for one nation (una gente) not so for.
Renaissance per se. Although invisible in most IR scholarship, the Renaissance is one of the most contested concepts of intellectual and cultural history. 1 Much debate has focused on the question of originality. Did the Renaissance revolutionize the way that man conceived of himself and his being-in-the-world or did it merely reformulate established ideas and belief systems? Was the Renaissance the dawning of modernity or the waning of the Middle Ages, or both simultaneously? 102 • From.
Came with the rediscovery of painting and the rejection of the "ugly form of Byzantine style" by the artistic geniuses Cimabue-"perhaps the first cause of the restoration of the art of painting"-and Giotto who, infused with divine inspiration, "revived the modern and excellent art of painting." 7 Enlightenment thinkers built on Vasari's basic scheme to present the Renaissance as the rebirth of Europe's culture, values, and civilization. 8 For Voltaire, men like Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio,.
Christendom, an idea incompatible with modern sovereignty. They hastened the erosion of the Christian political order by rejecting the theocratically based claims of Papacy and Empire to universal authority, by questioning the idea that Christendom was a political society, and by denying that regional rulers were beholden to laws superior to them. Further, Hinsley accepts that Machiavelli made two important contributions to the modern understanding of sovereignty. First, Machiavelli, like.