Francis Christopher Oakley
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Francis Christopher Oakley's Degrees
- Bachelors Modern History University of Oxford
- PhD Modern History University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Francis Christopher Oakley is the former Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of ideas at Williams College, President Emeritus of Williams College and President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, New York. He also served as Interim Director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
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- On the Road from Constance to 1688: The Political Thought of John Major and George Buchanan (1962) (164)
- Christian Theology and the Newtonian Science: The Rise of the Concept of the Laws of Nature (1961) (142)
- Almain and Major: Conciliar Theory on the Eve of the Reformation (1965) (137)
- Figgis, Constance, and the Divines of Paris (1969) (65)
- Omnipotence, Covenant and Order: An Excursion in the History of Ideas from Abelard to Leibniz (1984) (63)
- Pierre D'Ailly and the Absolute Power of God: Another Note on the Theology of Nominalism (1963) (60)
- Natural Law, the Corpus Mysticum, and Consent in Conciliar Thought from John of Paris to Matthias Ugonius (1981) (59)
- The Western church in the later Middle Ages (1979) (55)
- Jacobean Political Theology: The Absolute and Ordinary Powers of the King (1968) (39)
- Locke, natural law and God -- again (1997) (39)
- The political thought of Pierre d'Ailly: the voluntarist tradition (1964) (33)
- Christian obedience and authority, 1520–1550 (1991) (32)
- The watershed of modern politics : law, virtue, kingship, and consent (1300-1650) (2015) (31)
- Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights: Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Ideas (2005) (30)
- Kingship: The Politics Of Enchantment (2006) (29)
- Politics and Eternity: Studies in the History of Medieval and Early Modern Political Thought (1999) (28)
- The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870 (2008) (27)
- Medieval Theories of Natural Law: William of Ockham and the Significance of the Voluntarist Tradition (1961) (26)
- Legitimation by Consent: The Question of the Medieval Roots (1983) (25)
- The Absolute and Ordained Power of God in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Theology (1998) (21)
- The Crisis of Authority in Catholic Modernity (2011) (20)
- Edward Foxe, Matthew Paris, and the Royal Potestas Ordinis (1987) (17)
- The Absolute and Ordained Power of God and King in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Philosophy, Science, Politics, and Law (1998) (16)
- CELESTIAL HIERARCHIES REVISITED: WALTER ULLMANN'S VISION OF MEDIEVAL POLITICS (1973) (16)
- The Politics of Sin (2015) (16)
- The Councils of the Church: A Short History (2002) (14)
- Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050) (2010) (14)
- Conciliarism in the Sixteenth Century: Jacques Almain Again (1977) (14)
- The mortgage of the past : reshaping the ancient political inheritance (1050-1300) (2012) (13)
- MIXING METAPHORS : SCIENCE AND RELIGION OR NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (2005) (13)
- Community of learning (1992) (12)
- The Medieval Experience (1974) (12)
- The humanities in liberal arts colleges: another instance of collegiate exceptionalism? (2009) (9)
- “ANXIETIES OF INFLUENCE”: SKINNER, FIGGIS, CONCILIARISM AND EARLY MODERN CONSTITUTIONALISM (1996) (9)
- The Politics of Virtue (2015) (9)
- The Medieval Experience: Foundations of Western Cultural Singularity (1974) (8)
- The Conciliarist Tradition (2003) (8)
- Locke, Natural Law, and God (1966) (7)
- The ‘Propositiones Utiles’ of Pierre D'ailly: an Epitome of Conciliar Theory (1960) (6)
- Conciliarism at the Fifth Lateran Council? (1972) (6)
- The Politics of Deference (2015) (6)
- Bronze-age conciliarism: Edmond Richer's encounters with Cajetan and Bellarmine (1999) (5)
- Scholarship, teaching, and culture (1997) (5)
- The Watershed of Modern Politics (2015) (4)
- Against Nostalgia: Reflections on Our Present Discontents in American Higher Education (1991) (4)
- Complexities of Context: Gerson, Bellarmine, Sarpi, Richer, and the Venetian Interdict of 1606-1607 (1996) (4)
- Politics and Eternity (1999) (3)
- Lovejoy's Unexplored Option (1987) (3)
- In praise of prolepsis: Meaning, significance and the medieval contribution to political thought (2006) (3)
- From Constance to 1688 Revisited (1966) (3)
- Essays on the reconstruction of medieval history (1976) (3)
- Natural law, conciliarism, and consent in the late Middle Ages: Studies in ecclesiastical and intellectual history (1984) (3)
- Locke, Natural Law, and God;Note (1966) (2)
- Pierre d'Ailly and Papal Infallibility (1964) (2)
- Is the Church too Asian? Reflections on the Ecumenical Councils (2004) (2)
- The Idea of Natural Rights: Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law and Church Law, 1150-1625 by Brian Tierney (review) (1999) (2)
- Gerson and d'Ailly: An Admonition (1965) (2)
- The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century By Gerd Tellenbach. Translated by Timothy Reuter. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xix + 403 pp. (1995) (2)
- Headley, Marius and the Matter of Thomas More’s “Conciliarism” (1980) (2)
- Voluntarist theology and early-modern science: The matter of the divine power, absolute and ordained (2017) (2)
- History, Prophecy, and the Stars: The Christian Astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420 by Laura Ackerman Smoller (review) (1996) (1)
- The Mortgage of the Past (2017) (1)
- Gerson as Conciliarist (2006) (1)
- Council and Commune: The Conciliar Movement and the Fifteenth-century Heritage . By Antony Black. Pp. x + 253. London and Sheperdstown: Burns and Oates and The Patmos Press, 1979. £11.95. (1981) (1)
- History and the Return of the Repressed in Catholic Modernity (2011) (1)
- 3. Ignorant Armies and Nighttime Clashes: Changes in the Humanities Classroom, 1970-1995 (1997) (1)
- Simon de Cramaud, De substraccione obediencie , ed. Howard Kaminsky. (Medieval Academy Books, 92.) Cambridge, Mass.: The Medieval Academy of America, 1984. Pp. x, 252. $37.50 ($30 to members of the Medieval Academy). (1987) (1)
- Concluding Reflections on the Lilly Seminar (2002) (1)
- Devotio Moderna: Basic Writings.John Van Engen , Heiko Oberman (1991) (1)
- Lineages of European Political Thought: Explorations along the Medieval/Modern Divide from John of Salisbury to Hegel (review) (2011) (1)
- The Rise of the Concept of Laws of Nature Revisited (2019) (1)
- Remarks by Newly Elected Members (1998) (0)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, 2000 (2000) (0)
- Reassessing Reform: A Historical Investigation into Church Renewal . Edited byChristopher M. Bellitto andDavid Zachariah Flanagin.Washington, DC:Catholic University of America Press,2012. ix + 289 pages. $69.95. (2014) (0)
- From the Cast-Iron Shore (2018) (0)
- Gate of the Gods: Archaic and Global Patterns of Cosmic Kingship (2008) (0)
- Mystifying the Monarch: Studies in Discourse, Power, and History. Edited, with an introduction, by Jeroen Deploige and Gita Deneckere. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. Pp. 296. $45.00.) (2009) (0)
- Passage to Modernity: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Nature and Culture.Louis Dupré (1998) (0)
- Irven Michael Resnick, Divine Power and Possibility in St. Peter Damian's “De divina omnipotentia.” (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 31.) Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992. Pp. viii, 128. $43. (1994) (0)
- Politics & Eternity (2014) (0)
- William J. Courtenay, Capacity and Volition: A History of the Distinction of Absolute and Ordained Power . (Quodlibet, 8.) Bergamo: Pierluigi Lubrina, 1990. Paper. Pp. 214; black-and-white plate. L 32,000. (1993) (0)
- Henri Louis Charles Maret (1805–1884) (2019) (0)
- From Personal Duties Towards Personal Rights: Late Medieval and Early Modern Political Thought, 1300–1600 Arthur P. Monahan Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. xxvi + 445 pp., $65.00 (1997) (0)
- The Carolingian Accommodation: Christian Rulership in the Germanic Successor Kingdoms of Western Europe (2008) (0)
- The Politics of Consent (ii) (2015) (0)
- Priestly Kings and Royal Popes (2012) (0)
- G. H. Gerrits, Inter timorem et spem: A Study of the Theological Thought of Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen (1367–1398) . (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, 37.) Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986. Pp. xv, 332. Hfl 108. (1989) (0)
- Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present (review) (2005) (0)
- De Maistre’s Denial: Febronius, De Maistre, Maret, and the Triumph of Ultramontanism (2008) (0)
- Christianity in the West 1400–1700 . By John Bossy. (Opus Books.) Pp. xii + 189Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. £12.50 (cloth), £3.95 (paper). 0 19 289162 6; 0 19 219174 8 (1987) (0)
- Humanism and Scholasticism in Late Medieval Germany.James H. Overfield (1987) (0)
- Bellarmine’s Nightmare: From James I, Sarpi, and Richer to Bossuet, Tournély, and the Gallican Orthodoxy (2008) (0)
- The Eusebian Accommodation: Christian Rulership in Imperial Rome, Byzantium, and Russia (2008) (0)
- Trends in Medieval Political Thought: Essays (1966) (0)
- Lester L. Field Jr., Liberty, Dominion, and the Two Swords: On the Origins of Western Political Theology (180–398) . (Publications in Medieval Studies, 28.) Notre Dame, Ind., and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 542. $95. (2003) (0)
- The Elusive Academic Profession: Complexity and Change (2017) (0)
- Church, State and Christian Society at the Time of the Investiture Contest. By Gerd Tellenbach. Translated by R. F. Bennett. Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching 27. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. xxiv + 196 pp. $14.95 paper. (1994) (0)
- Book Review:The Nature, Structure, and Function of the Church in William of Ockham John J. Ryan (1982) (0)
- Mystifying the Monarch: Studies in Discourse, Power, and History – Edited by Jeroen Deploige and Gita Deneckere (2009) (0)
- The Fading Nimbus: Modern Kingship and its Fate in a Disenchanted World (2008) (0)
- Christian Virtuoso and Scholastic Tradition: Robert Boyle and the Potentia dei Absoluta et Ordinata (2003) (0)
- Christendom’s Crisis: The Great Schism, the Conciliar Movement, and the Era of Councils from Pisa to Trent (2008) (0)
- Gerson’s Hope: FifteenthCentury Conciliarism and its Roots (2008) (0)
- Scholarship and teaching (1996) (0)
- The General Councils. A History of the Twenty-One Church Councils From Nicaea to Vatican II (Book) (2004) (0)
- Beyond the Reformation? Authority, Primacy and Unity in the Conciliar Tradition (review) (2007) (0)
- The Paradox of Holy Matter in the Later Middle Ages (2013) (0)
- Conciliarism and Papalism . Edited by J. H. Burns and Thomas M. Izbicki. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxxiv + 315 pp. $59.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. (1999) (0)
- Recuperating the Past (iii) (2012) (0)
- Alan E. Bernstein, Pierre d'Ailly and the Blanchard Affair: University and Chancellor of Paris at the Beginning of the Great Schism . (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, XXIV.) Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978. Pp. x, 307. Glds 120. (1980) (0)
- Proto-Constitutionalist Innovation (2012) (0)
- Democritus’s Dreame:* Conciliarism in the History of Political Thought (2008) (0)
- Lawrence Moonan, Divine Power: The Medieval Power Distinction up to Its Adoption by Albert, Bonaventure, and Aquinas . Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 396. $59. (1996) (0)
- WESTERN MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS STUDIES (1974) (0)
- The leadership challenge of a college presidency : meaning, occasion, and voice (2002) (0)
- The Politics of Nostalgia (2015) (0)
- Personalities at the Council of Florence and Other Essays. Joseph Gill (1966) (0)
- Epilogue: Survivals and Revivals (2008) (0)
- Prologue: Matters of Perspective (2008) (0)
- Secularism in question (2016) (0)
- A Concise History of the Medieval Church . By Isnard Wilhelm Frank. Translated by John Bowden New York: Continuum, 1995. x + 155 pp. $18.95. (1997) (0)
- The Wisdom of the Middle Ages. By Michael K. Kellogg. (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2016. Pp. 381. $26.00.) (2018) (0)
- Beliefs of Georgia Educators Regarding After-School Programs (2008) (0)
- Prologue: Kingship and its Changing Profile in the Central Middle Ages (2012) (0)
- Book Review:Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century Amos Funkenstein (1987) (0)
- Joseph Canning, A History of Medieval Political Thought, 300–1450 . London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. xv, 255. $65 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). (1999) (0)
- 3 Locke, natural law and God – again (chapt. 2 + 3) (2012) (0)
- Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth (review) (2012) (0)
- Emily O’Brien. The Commentaries of Pope Pius II (1458–1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy. (2017) (0)
- O come all ye faithful : favourite carols (1980) (0)
- Epilogue: Unfinished Business, Trailing Ends (2008) (0)
- Reforming the Church before Modernity: Patterns, Problems, and Approaches. Edited by Christopher M. Bellitto and Louis I. Hamilton. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. xxiv + 225 pp. $94.95 cloth. (2006) (0)
- Will and artifice: the impact of voluntarist theology on early-modern science (2019) (0)
- Cajetan’s Conundrum: Almain, Mair, the Divines of Paris, and their English Sympathizers (2008) (0)
- Roger Collins. Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy. New York: Basic Books. 2009. Pp. vi, 566. $35.00 (2010) (0)
- Simon de Cramaud and the Great Schism. Howard Kaminsky (1985) (0)
- d. catherine brown. Pastor and Laity in the Theology of Jean Gerson. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1987. Pp. ix, 358. $54.50 (1989) (0)
- Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation (review) (2007) (0)
- From the Cast-Iron Shore: In Lifelong Pursuit of Liberal Learning (2018) (0)
- Princely Virtues in the Middle Ages, 1200–1500 (review) (2009) (0)
- Suggestions for Further Reading (2008) (0)
- It Could Have Been Otherwise: Contingency and Necessity in Dominican Theology at Oxford, 1300-1350. Hester Goodenough Gelber (2006) (0)
- Prologue: Memory, Authority, and Oblivion (2008) (0)
- The Sacrality of Kingship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Papal, Imperial, National (2008) (0)
- The Christian Commonwealth (ii) (2012) (0)
- Liberty, Dominion, and the Two Swords: On the Origins of Western Political Theology (180-398). Lester L. Field Jr. (2003) (0)
- More, St. German, Gerson and Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew xxi, 12 (1963) (0)
- Royal Saviors and Shepherds: Hellenistic, Roman, Biblical, and Islamic Views of Kingship (2008) (0)
- Alister McGrath, The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation . New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp. viii, 223. $39.95. (1989) (0)
- The general councils. A history of the twenty-one church councils from Nicaea to Vatican II. By Christopher M. Bellitto. Pp. xi+156 incl. 4 ills. New York–Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2002. $16.95 (paper). 0 8091 4019 5 (2004) (0)
- Cross Cultural Convergences in the Crusader Period: Essays Presented to Aryeh Grabois on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday . Edited by Michael Goodich, Sophia Menache, and Sylvia Schein. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. xxviii + 334 pp. $69.95. (1997) (0)
- Louis B. Pascoe, S. J. Church and Reform: Bishops, Theologians, and Canon Lawyers in the Thought of Pierre d'Ailly (1351-1420). (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, number 105.) Boston: Brill. 2005. Pp. xii, 326. $147.00 (2006) (0)
- Greene and Stanlis on Dr. Johnson and the Natural Law: a Medieval Postscript (1964) (0)
- The Ages of Faith: Popular Religion in Late Medieval England and Europe, and: The Church in the Later Middle Ages (review) (2010) (0)
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