SOURCE: Dickinson, John. “The Mediaeval Conception of Kingship and Some of Its Limitations, as Developed in the Policraticus of John of Salisbury.” Speculum 1, no. 3 (July 1926): 308-37.
In the following essay, Dickinson explores the sometimes contradictory ideas which constitute John's concept of the monarch.
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