Antony Black

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Antony Black

BA, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Tel: 01382 344592
mailto:a.j.black@dundee.ac.uk

Born in Leeds, educated at Shrewsbury School and King's College, Cambridge (BA 1st class 1960, Ph.D. 1967). Research interests include the history of political thought in a comparative and global perspective, starting from the evolution of homo sapiens; prehistoric societies; early civilizations such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Israel and Greece to c. 300 BCE. I am seeking to isolate salient themes and modes of thought in these different cultures, to see what they had in common, and in what ways each one was unique. In what ways did early cultures influence the subsequent course of political thinking in different parts of the world? Further interests include the history of Islamic political ideas; comparisons between the development of political thought in Islam and Europe c.650-c.1650; European political thought from the 12th century to the 17th century, including constitutionalism and monarchy, guilds and corporatism; 19th-century German thought, especially Gierke. A founding review editor of Journal of Early Modern History: Contracts, Comparisons, Contrasts (Brill).

[edit] Selected publications

The History of Islamic Political Thought from the Prophet to the Present (Edinburgh University Press and Routledge New York, 2001)

Guilds and Civil Society in European Political Thought from the 12th Century to the present (Methuen 1984, re-issued by Transaction Books, 2002)

'Political Thought in Europe 1250-1450 (Cambridge University Press, 1992, reprinted 2000)

Christianity and Republicanism from St. Cyprian to Rousseau in American Political Science Review, 91 (1997)

Communal Democracy and its History, in Political Studies, 45 (1997)

Classical Islam and Medieval Europe in ed. B. Tierney, The Middle Ages, vol.2 (McGraw-Hill, first published in Political Studies, 41, 1993)

Individuals, Groups and States: a Comparative Overview in ed. Janet Coleman, 'The Individual in theory & Practice' (in series Origins of the Modern State, eds. W. Blockmans & J-P Genet, Oxford University Press, for the European Science Foundaton, 1996)

Popes and Councils in ed. Christopher Allmand, 'The New Cambridge Medieval History', vol.7: c.1415 - c.1500, Cambridge University Press, 1998) Navigation bar

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