Books in the The Wiles Lectures series

This book is based on the Wiles lectures for 1981 delivered at the Queen's University of Belfast in October 1981.

To understand the growth of Western constitutional thought, we need to consider both ecclesiology and political theory, ideas about the Church as well as ideas about the state. In this book Professor Tierney traces the interplay between ecclesiastical and secular theories of government from the twelfth century to the seventeenth.