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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Machiavelli has been misread for five hundred years. This book corrects the error by restoring the world that made him.The popular image of Machiavelli - cynical tactician, patron saint of power politics - strips him of the civilization he was analyzing. The academic image - philosopher of civic republicanism recovering classical antiquity - strips out the institutional grit. Neither version bothers with the political world he actually described.That world was Christendom: a thousand-year civilization in which moral language and political power were not separate systems but one integrated structure. Popes commanded armies. Bishops ran courts. Canon law governed marriage, inheritance, and commerce. The Church administered education, welfare, and diplomacy. You could not separate the political system of Christian Europe from its ecclesiastical infrastructure any more than you could separate a building from its foundations.Machiavelli did not observe this world from outside it. He was its product. His Latin was ecclesiastical Latin. His education was Christian in content and form. His political problems - faction, mercenaries, the gap between moral aspiration and institutional survival - were the specific problems of the civilization the Church had built.Machiavelli in Christendom reads Machiavelli as an institutional analyst and Christendom as the institution he was analyzing. Drawing on the work of Harold Berman, Ernst Kantorowicz, Charles Taylor, and Max Weber, the book examines: - How competing authorities - papal, imperial, royal, episcopal - generated the structural pluralism that made Machiavelli's analysis possible- How enforcement, legitimacy, and obedience actually functioned within medieval and Renaissance institutions- How scriptural narratives - Moses, the Judges, the monarchy, the Maccabean revolt, Paul - operate as case studies in political formation when read through Machiavelli's framework- How Christendom's institutional legacy - the university, corporate personhood, due process, professional ethics - migrated into modernity under secular labelsThe final chapters equip readers with a practical framework for institutional literacy: how to identify where legitimacy comes from, where enforcement actually falls, who the intermediaries are, and what happens to dissent - in any institution, secular or religious, that the reader inhabits today.For readers who work inside institutions they can see clearly - and who understand that attention to how power operates is the first condition of responsible action within it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Machiavelli has been misread for five hundred years. This book corrects the error by restoring the world that made him.The popular image of Machiavelli - cynical tactician, patron saint of power politics - strips him of the civilization he was analyzing. The academic image - philosopher of civic republicanism recovering classical antiquity - strips out the institutional grit. Neither version bothers with the political world he actually described.That world was Christendom: a thousand-year civilization in which moral language and political power were not separate systems but one integrated structure. Popes commanded armies. Bishops ran courts. Canon law governed marriage, inheritance, and commerce. The Church administered education, welfare, and diplomacy. You could not separate the political system of Christian Europe from its ecclesiastical infrastructure any more than you could separate a building from its foundations.Machiavelli did not observe this world from outside it. He was its product. His Latin was ecclesiastical Latin. His education was Christian in content and form. His political problems - faction, mercenaries, the gap between moral aspiration and institutional survival - were the specific problems of the civilization the Church had built.Machiavelli in Christendom reads Machiavelli as an institutional analyst and Christendom as the institution he was analyzing. Drawing on the work of Harold Berman, Ernst Kantorowicz, Charles Taylor, and Max Weber, the book examines: - How competing authorities - papal, imperial, royal, episcopal - generated the structural pluralism that made Machiavelli's analysis possible- How enforcement, legitimacy, and obedience actually functioned within medieval and Renaissance institutions- How scriptural narratives - Moses, the Judges, the monarchy, the Maccabean revolt, Paul - operate as case studies in political formation when read through Machiavelli's framework- How Christendom's institutional legacy - the university, corporate personhood, due process, professional ethics - migrated into modernity under secular labelsThe final chapters equip readers with a practical framework for institutional literacy: how to identify where legitimacy comes from, where enforcement actually falls, who the intermediaries are, and what happens to dissent - in any institution, secular or religious, that the reader inhabits today.For readers who work inside institutions they can see clearly - and who understand that attention to how power operates is the first condition of responsible action within it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Public knowledge is undergoing a structural transformation.A claim begins inside a serious discipline-medicine, economics, public policy-bounded by evidence, scope, and caveats. As it moves into public circulation, its form changes. It becomes simpler, louder, and more certain. Constraints fall away. The versions that travel farthest are shaped for ease of repetition, defense, and group alignment.The Drift Model provides a clear, usable framework for seeing that transformation as a selection process-not a mystery, and not a personality diagnosis. It explains how claims lose their original structure under transmission pressure, why the same pattern repeats across domains, and where intervention still has leverage.What this book gives youA five-stage model for how claims change function as they move: Serious Traditions Meme Extracts Folk Theories Status Engines Identity Systems.A practical way to track what actually drifts: the claim bundle (proposition + scope + substrate + falsifiers), and how those constraints get shed over time.A map of the selection environment that shapes modern knowledge: attention markets, algorithmic routing, context collapse, and governance pressures.Four forensic case studies that make the mechanism visible across domains: Health & wellness pipelinesPsychology & therapy pipelinesPolitics & moral psychology pipelinesOrganizations & KPI pipelinesA constrained toolkit for real work: stage-location guides, diagnostic checks, and writing/decision methods designed for high-pressure environments where revision has a cost.Who this is forYou'll get the most value from this book if your work requires judgment under pressure-often before full clarity is available: Researchers, analysts, and journalists working with contested claims where scope, updateability, and calibration matter.Institutional stewards in policy, education, public health, governance, trust & safety, or communications who need decisions that hold up under scrutiny.Organizational leaders operating inside KPI and incentive systems where measurement gradually substitutes for intent.Writers, editors, and educators translating complex material into public-facing forms while preserving constraints.How to read itThis book supports two complementary uses: Read for understanding: Parts I-III build the model and the selection environment.Use under constraint: Part V functions as an operational reference with checklists and tools for rapid audits.What this book is designed to doThe Drift Model is descriptive rather than tactical. It supports diagnosis rather than optimization. It makes structural transformation visible-so you can locate where a claim's constraints were lost, what pressures selected the cheaper variant, and what it would take to make revision feasible again.If you work in environments where claims must survive selection pressure, institutional scrutiny, and machine-legible retrieval, this book gives you a durable instrument for seeing clearly-before debates become identity infrastructure. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…