TY - BOOK AU - Salter,Alexander William AU - Young,Andrew T. TI - The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West SN - 9780472903351 AV - JC574 PY - 2023/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=30550474 ER -