Book review: Political thought in medieval times.
Review of the book political thought in medieval times- J.b Morrall.
This review is based on the book ‘political thought in medieval times’ written by John.b.morrall. John Bowes Morrall (1873-1963) was a York author and historian he was also the mayor of York for a brief time and was a leading figure in establishing a university in York. In his last eight years he was lecturing on medieval history and particularly in development of medieval history in the university college Dublin.
The author’s achievement is a remarkable one; in some 130 pages of text he has written an essay on development of political thought between the fall of Rome and its reformation under Christianity. Not only has he achieved in giving a remarkable insight into the medieval Rome and the political and sociological structure of medieval Rome he has also achieved a feat of writing first-rate history of medieval political thought which gives the survey of the whole field and also puts the idea of great thinkers like Gemistus Pletho and Damascius in a right perspective hence one might say that the author has his feet firmly on the ground, and he has produced a short but extremely insightful book produced in short version and hence combines clarity and comprehensiveness.
The following paragraph of my review will be the summary of the theme of the book I chose for this review. As the name of the book suggests the core and central part of this book is based about the political scenario of the middle age in the west since this book concentrates on middle age its chronological limitations are provided by fall of Roman civilization in the west and also the reformation. Overall the central theme of this book is emergence, rise, development and collapse of Christian common-wealth and its replacement with the modern perception of state. The book might appear to be facts based but the author tries to tackle two tasks 1) to find out the extent to which the ideas of the Christian common-wealth
This review is based on the book ‘political thought in medieval times’ written by John.b.morrall. John Bowes Morrall (1873-1963) was a York author and historian he was also the mayor of York for a brief time and was a leading figure in establishing a university in York. In his last eight years he was lecturing on medieval history and particularly in development of medieval history in the university college Dublin.
The author’s achievement is a remarkable one; in some 130 pages of text he has written an essay on development of political thought between the fall of Rome and its reformation under Christianity. Not only has he achieved in giving a remarkable insight into the medieval Rome and the political and sociological structure of medieval Rome he has also achieved a feat of writing first-rate history of medieval political thought which gives the survey of the whole field and also puts the idea of great thinkers like Gemistus Pletho and Damascius in a right perspective hence one might say that the author has his feet firmly on the ground, and he has produced a short but extremely insightful book produced in short version and hence combines clarity and comprehensiveness.
The following paragraph of my review will be the summary of the theme of the book I chose for this review. As the name of the book suggests the core and central part of this book is based about the political scenario of the middle age in the west since this book concentrates on middle age its chronological limitations are provided by fall of Roman civilization in the west and also the reformation. Overall the central theme of this book is emergence, rise, development and collapse of Christian common-wealth and its replacement with the modern perception of state. The book might appear to be facts based but the author tries to tackle two tasks 1) to find out the extent to which the ideas of the Christian common-wealth