After reading this article you will learn about the concept of medieval state. The medieval states had no clear-cut geographical boundary. The frequent armed conflicts among the kings or rulers obliterated the boundary lines and this was a great factor of the absence of nation-state in this period. Another element of a nation-state is the established political authority. In the [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the political ideas of the Church. Christianity or church, per se, did not propagate any political doctrine or ideas and it was not the purpose. But its sermons—preached among the people belonging to all sections of society—contained the germs of certain political concepts which were treated by the great academics as remarkable [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the political thought in the 14th and 15th centuries. Fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are regarded as the last phases of the Middle Ages. Historians and scholars have noticed that during these two centuries political thought underwent spectacular changes. In the opinion of Hearnshaw—"To the period of an assured institutional church, sitting in [...]