The Nature and Role of Consent in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Political Thought

FAIN: FA-11600-76

Francis Oakley
Williams College (Williamstown, MA 01267-2600)

To examine the process whereby from the fourteenth century on into the mid-seventeenth, consent theories of one sort or another moved into the foreground of European political thinking. Without this process, the doctrine of consent could hardly have come to play a prominent role in the later tradition of political thinking that runs from Hobbes to Hegel and beyond.