Sandra’s Reviews > Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism > Status Update

"We are now in a position to identify the opposing tendencies at work in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The extreme parcelling out of public authority that was a feature of early feudalism, so that the idea of a public jurisdiction almost disappeared into a property right, opened the way for a redefinition of the nature and grounds of public authority."

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