 Although political philosophy was not part of the core curriculum in the universities, and although the writings surveyed above were generally not produced with the idea of contributing to a philosophical discipline, by the end of the middle ages the discipline of political philosophy (or political theology) had attained self-consciousness and a sense of constituting a tradition. Manuscript copies of political writings by different authors were often bound together as volumes (Ouy 1979). There was a readership to which such works could be addressed (Miethke 1980, 2000b). Suárez and other late scholastic writers gave an outline of the history of a problem and surveyed what others had said about it. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a number of collections of political writings were published, e.g., by Dupuy (1655) and Goldast  (1611–4).[77]  Early modern writers such as Hooker, Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke could easily find the works of at least some writers who had written on politics during the middle ages or would know of their ideas at least by  hearsay.[78] 