To Govern Is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval Democracy - Paperback
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To Govern Is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval Democracy
To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels--most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be first"--into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors. Jacques Dalarun argues that these democratic forms have profoundly influenced modern experiences of democracy, in...
Jacques Dalarun is Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. Among his books are The Misadventure of Francis of Assisi and Robert of Arbrissel.
Sean L. Field is Professor of History at the University of Vermont, a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and the author of several books, including Courting Sanctity.
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