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Natural Law and Political Realism in the History of Political Thought: Volume II: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century (2006)
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Dyson, R. (2007). Natural Law and Political Realism in the History of Political Thought: Volume II: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century. Peter Lang

This second volume completes the author's account of natural law and political realism as historical traditions of political thought. In it, the development of those traditions is traced from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, with specia... Read More about Natural Law and Political Realism in the History of Political Thought: Volume II: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century.

St. Augustine of Hippo and the Christian Transformation of Political Philosophy (2005)
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Dyson, R. (2006). St. Augustine of Hippo and the Christian Transformation of Political Philosophy. Continuum Press

Natural Law and Political Realism in the History of Political Thought. Volume I: From the Sophists to Machiavelli (2005)
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Dyson, R. (2005). Natural Law and Political Realism in the History of Political Thought. Volume I: From the Sophists to Machiavelli. Peter Lang

This is the first volume of a detailed history of the traditions of natural law and political realism in western political thought. It elucidates the ways in which the relation between politics and morality was understood by major thinkers from class... Read More about Natural Law and Political Realism in the History of Political Thought. Volume I: From the Sophists to Machiavelli.

Giles of Rome's 'On Ecclesiastical Power': A Medieval Theory of World Government (2004)
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Dyson, R. (2004). Giles of Rome's 'On Ecclesiastical Power': A Medieval Theory of World Government. Columbia University Press

Giles of Rome was the archbishop of Bourges and a loyal champion of Pope Boniface VIII during the Franco-papal crisis of 1296–1303. On Ecclesiastical Power was written at the height of the conflict between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip IV of Fra... Read More about Giles of Rome's 'On Ecclesiastical Power': A Medieval Theory of World Government.

Normative Theories of Society and Government in Five Medieval Thinkers : St. Augustine, John of Salisbury, Giles of Rome, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Marsilius of Padua (2003)
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Dyson, R. (2003). Normative Theories of Society and Government in Five Medieval Thinkers : St. Augustine, John of Salisbury, Giles of Rome, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Marsilius of Padua. Edwin Mellen Press

The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "This book is a detailed scholarly examination of five major medieval thinkers who sought to bring out the implications, for social and political life and organizations, of the doctrines, thou... Read More about Normative Theories of Society and Government in Five Medieval Thinkers : St. Augustine, John of Salisbury, Giles of Rome, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Marsilius of Padua.