Salter, Alexander William. <br/><br/>
The Medieval Constitution of Liberty :  Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (311 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1: The Historical Backdrop -- 2. The Fall of Rome and the Rise of the Barbarian West -- 3. The Carolingian Project -- 4. The Peace of God -- Part 2: The Medieval Constitution: Theory and History -- 5. Political Property Rights and Constitutional Bargaining -- 6. Sovereignty and Self-Enforcing Political Property Rights -- 7. Polycentric Sovereignty -- 8. Why Western Europe? Why Not Elsewhere? -- Part 3: The Medieval Institutions of Liberty -- 9. Representative Assemblies -- 10. The Self-Governing Medieval City -- Part 4: The Rise of the Nation-State -- 11. The Tragedy of the Medieval Anticommons? State Capacity and the Origins of Economic Growth -- 12. What State Capacity Cannot Do -- 13. Postscript: The Road Away from Polycentric Sovereignty -- Appendix: Historiographical Notes -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780472903351 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC574