Why did European civilisation develop as it did? Why was it so different from that of Russia, the Islamic world and elsewhere? In this new textbook Antony Black

This volume examines the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than a thousand years.

This book examines some of the salient historiographical and conceptual issues that animate current scholarly debates about the nature of the medieval contribut

Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Political writers in the e

This book is a groundbreaking history of balance, exploring how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period.