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Medieval political philosophy is a part of the intellectual legacy of Western Europe in the middle ages. “Middle ages” might be started with the decline of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD) and ended up with the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans (1453 AD) when general history of civilisation is the case. However, as regards the history of philosophy and/or history of thought in general, even the specalists of medival thought disagree on the beginning and the end of the middle ages. Concerning Western European medieval thought, it will be used to note that “scholasticism” or the “scholastic age” are widely known and common names to refer to this tradition. It is a presuppositon without any further discussion, too, that the medieval thought includes the “prescholastic”, “scholastic” and “late scholastic” periods.