Böcker av Antony Black

Guild and State examines the values of social solidarity and fraternity that emerged from medieval guilds and city-communes, and the effect of traditional corporate organization of labor on socioeconomic attitudes and theories of the state

In Europe from the 12th to the 17th centuries, the corporate organization of labour and of town-market communities developed side-by-side with the ideals of personal liberty, market freedom and legal equality. Both affected the ideology of the European commune and city-state.

This text examines theories of government in the medieval church, and of medieval guild and city organization and ideology. It also looks at the origins of the modern state in Europe and compares the similarities and differences in the development of political thought in Christendom and Islamdom.

This book provides students of both medieval history and political thought with an accessible and lucid introduction to the early development of certain ideas fundamental to the organisation of the modern world and contains a full bibliography to assist students wishing to pursue the subject in greater depth.