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This survey will be concerned almost entirely with the Latin West. Other strands of medieval political thought are discussed elsewhere in the volume in articles on Political Philosophy, Byzantine; Political Philosophy, Arabic; and Political Philosophy, Jewish. Here I consider first the sources, historical contexts, and genres of medieval political philosophy, then some major topics discussed and positions taken on them.

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  1. Department of Philosophy (Professor Emeritus), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

    Arthur Stephen McGrade

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  1. Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

    Henrik Lagerlund

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McGrade, A.S. (2011). Political Philosophy. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_409

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