From: The Historian | Date: January 1, 1994| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1994 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This volume, a reworked text of the author's 1988 Carlyle lectures at Oxford University, surveys the ideology of monarchy during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. If, as Burns suggests, we accept the historiographical estimation of this period as a "time of troubles" for European monarchies in general, then it is not surprising that the author also discerns "a certain underlying theme of crisis" within the written articulation of political ideas regarding monarchy during that same period. His discussion begins with an analysis of lordship (dominium), proceeds to an ...