Abstract:
It is not the intention of this short overview to give a whole picture of the research on medieval political philosophy at large during the 20 th century, but rather to sketch the (different) evaluations of some important medieval thinkers at the threshold of the modern world, i.e. the political theory of the later middle Ages, an era of scholastic university. Positions of Otto von Gierke, the Carlyles, Ernst Kantorowicz, Walter Ullmann, Alois Dempf and Georges de Lagarde are shortly considered. Finally two major figures of the 14th century, Marsilius of Padua and William of Ockham, are shown in the conflicting views of modern interpretation.
