Medieval Political Theory: A Reader: The Quest for the Body Politic 1100-1400

`This is an anthology of important works that reveals the development of political ideas between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. Here you will find familiar writers – Glanville, Aquinas, Dante, Marsiglio of Padua – but also the unfamiliar, including women writers like Christine de Pizan and Marie de France. The sources are prefaced by an excellent introduction.’ – Teaching History

Cary J. Nederman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Arizona. He has written widely on the history of Western political theory.,
Kate Langdon Forhan is Associate Professor of Political Science at Siena College, New York. She has written a number of articles on the development of medieval political thought.