A major problem which occupied thinkers in the later Middle Ages was the question of the internal structure of the Church and the proper interrelationship of its members.  Meer

To understand the growth of Western constitutional thought, we need to consider both ecclesiology and political theory, ideas about the Church as well as ideas about the state.  Meer

The papers collected in this volume fall into three main groups. Those in the first group are concerned with the origin and early development of the idea of natural rights.  Meer

“[A] rare thing . . . In these poems of turnpikes, water, and migraine light, filled with grief and life, the poet tells us it’s all right that ‘we don’t love / living.  Meer