Biography
Francis Christopher Oakley (born in England in 1931) is the former Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of ideas at Williams College, President Emeritus of Williams College and President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, New York. He also served as Interim Director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. His research focuses on late-medieval and early-modern religious studies and history of political thought.
Books by Francis Oakley
From the Cast-Iron Shore
Watershed of Modern Politics
Watershed of Modern Politics
Mortgage of the Past
Mortgage of the Past
The mortgage of the past
The mortgage of the past
Crisis of Authority in Catholi
Crisis of Authority in Catholic Modernity
The crisis of authority in Catholic modernity
Empty bottles of gentilism
Empty bottles of gentilism
Athenian Potters and Painters
Athenian Potters and Painters Volume II
Conciliarist Tradition
Conciliarist Tradition
The conciliarist tradition
Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights
Governance, Accountability, and the Future of the Catholic Church
Leadership Challenge of a College Presidency
Omnipotence and promise
Omnipotence and promise
Politics and Eternity
Scholarship and teaching
Scholarship and teaching
Natural law, conciliarism, and
Natural law, conciliarism, and consent in the late Middle Ages
Omnipotence, covenant & order
The western church in the later Middle Ages
Celestial hierarchies revisite
Celestial hierarchies revisited: Walter Ullmann's vision of medieval politics
Council over Pope?
Kingship and the gods: the Wes
Kingship and the gods: the Western apostasy
The political thought of Pierr
The political thought of Pierre d'Ailly
The political thought of Pierre d'Ailly: the voluntarist tradition
CONCILIARIST TRADITION: CONSTI
CONCILIARIST TRADITION: CONSTITUTIONALISM IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1300-1870