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''This marvellous book combines very substantial and wide-ranging scholarship with great conceptual and analytic rigour to present a sophisticated, entirely original and highly compelling history of conceptions of property in the West from the Greeks to the 19th century.' Raymond Geuss, Professor in Philosophy, University of Cambridge'Garnsey’s meticulous and focused scholarship will fundamentally change our basic thinking about the origins and legitimation of property in the western tradition … I know of no other work that so accurately traces the genealogy of modern debts to ancient thought on this important subject.' Brent Shaw, Professor of Classics and Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics, Princeton University
"As should be clear from this (partial) survey of its contents, this is a wide-ranging, learned and ambitious book that is intended to appeal to a wide audience. It should interest historians of ideas, students of political thought, scholars of religion, and anyone interested in the intellectual roots of rights theory." BMCR
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Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction 1
Plato's 'communism', Aristotle's critique and Proclus' response 6
Plato's 'communism': from late antiquity via Islamic Spain to the Renaissance 31
Renunciation and communality: thinking through the primitive Church 59
The poverty of Christ: crises of asceticism from the Pelagians to the Franciscans 84
The state of nature and the origin of private property: Hesiod to William of Ockham 107
The state of nature and the origin of private property: Grotius to Hegel 136
Property as a legal right 177
Property as a human right 204
Conclusion 233
Bibliography 238
Index 262