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Contents

8.1 Late Medieval Monarchy and the Origin of the Western State................................................ 178

8.2 From Kings to Monarchs..........................................................................................................

178

8.2.1 The Consolidation of the Hereditary Principle as the Basis of Royal

Legitimacy................................................................................................................... 179

8.2.2 A Territorial Monarchy............................................................................................... 182

8.2.3 An Expanding Monarchy............................................................................................ 183

8.2.4 An Administrative Monarchy.................................................................................... 183

8.3 The Triumph of Monarchy Over Christian Universalism......................................................... 185

8.4 The Medieval Origins of the “Rule of Law”: Pacts as a Legal Restraint on Territorial

Monarchy.................................................................................................................................... 187

8.4.1 The Nobility’s Resistance to Losing Its Political Power............................................. 188

8.4.2 Urban Autonomy........................................................................................................ 188

8.5 Towards the Shared Exercise of Power.................................................................................... 190

8.5.1 The Rise of State Assemblies..................................................................................... 190

8.5.2 The Origins of the Representative Principle.............................................................. 192

8.6 A King Subject to the Law....................................................................................................... 197

8.7 Europe’s First “Constitutional” Texts?..................................................................................... 198

References........................................................................................................................................... 203

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Source: Aguilera-Barchet Bruno. A History of Western Public Law. Between Nation and State. Springer,2015. — 788 p.. 2015

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