... the more important princes an increasing edge over lesser actors, at the same time that development was both furthered and impeded by conflicting cultural and ideological currents — as reflected in the thinking of such authors as Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Nicolaus Cusanus, Jean Bodin, Johannes Althusius...

... Comestor Nicolaus Cusanus Liber antiquitatum biblicarum Isidore of Seville The middle of the first millennium of our era marks a turning point in the history of the Greco-Roman civilization around the Mediterranean Sea. A political and administrative separation had taken place between the eastern...