In the period between 500 and 1500 AD, discussions on the best form of government took place in many regions and empires of the Eurasian world.1 A central element of this discourse was the tension between the authority of the individual and the consent of the many. This tension between command and consent has continued throughout the entire history of politics of all Eurasian regions and is closely related to other issues, such as state sovereignty,2 the emergence of the Estates of the Realm,3 the beginning of parliamentarianism and the general character of pre-modern polities.4 In this collection of essays, based on the papers of ‘The Medieval History Seminar’, held on 5 November 2014 at Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, we would like to continue this debate from a comparative perspective by examining the tension between command and consent in different parts

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命令与同意

在公元 500 年到 1500 年之间，欧亚世界的许多地区和帝国都在讨论最佳政府形式。 1 这种讨论的核心要素是个人权威与许多人的同意之间的紧张关系。 . 命令与同意之间的这种紧张关系贯穿整个欧亚地区的政治历史，并与其他问题密切相关，例如国家主权2、王国等级的出现、3议会制的开始和一般特征4 在这本论文集中，基于 2014 年 11 月 5 日在新德里贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁大学举行的“中世纪历史研讨会”的论文，