BIBLIOGRAPHY
For modern theories of the state, public law, and the
nation the following books are good: Hans Kelsen, General
Theory of Law and State (Cambridge, Mass., 1945); R. M.
MacIver, The Modern State (London, 1926); F. H. Hinsley,
Sovereignty (London, 1966); Hans Kohn, The Idea of
Nationalism (New York, 1946); and Boyd S. Shafer, Nation-
alism: Myth and Reality (New York, 1946).
Medieval ideas on the same subjects are treated by Ernst
Kantorowicz, The King's Two Bodies (Princeton, 1957), esp.
Ch. V; and by G. Post, Studies in Medieval Legal Thought
(Princeton, 1964), Introduction and Chs. V, X, XI for a
detailed account of ideas of public law, “reason of state,”
and nationalism. For the development of these ideas in
France, see Joseph R. Strayer, “Defense of the Realm and
Royal Power in France,” Studi in onore di Gino Luzzato
(Milan, 1949), pp. 289-96. Fritz Kern, Kingship and Law
in the Middle Ages, trans. S. B. Chrimes (Oxford, 1948),
while valuable, has nothing on the rise of ideas of public
law and the state. For similar ideas in the Renaissance see
Friedrich Meinecke, Machiavellism: The Doctrine of Raison
d'État and Its Place in Modern History, trans. Douglas Scott
(London, 1957; New York, 1965); Hans Baron, The Crisis
of the Early Italian Renaissance (Princeton, 1966); and
Vincent Ilardi, “'Italianità' among Some Italian Intellec-
tuals in the Early Sixteenth Century,” Traditio, 12 (1956),
339-67. Finally, for a quotation given above, see Robert
J. Schneider, “A 'Mirror for Princes' by Vincent de
Beauvais,” in Studium Generale. Studies Offered to Astrik
L. Gabriel (Notre Dame, Ind., 1968), pp. 207-23.
GAINES POST
[See also Church; Constitutionalism; Law, Ancient Roman,
Natural; Machiavellism;
Nationalism; Renaissance Human-
ism;
State; War and Militarism.]
