<p>Sovereignty has always been an important concept in political thought, and at no time in European history was it more important than during the perplexed conditions of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Universal government was a fading dream, giving way to the new conception of the national state and the whole basis of political thought was being reorientated by the influx of Aristotelian ideas. Dr Wilks's book is an attempt to clarify the more important problems in the political outlook of the period. He shows that at this time the theologians and literary writers, especially Augustinus Triumphus of Ancona, had built up a complete theory of sovereignty in favour of the papal monarchy, based on a neo-Platonic, Augustinian view of the church as a universal and totalitarian state.</p>

The Problem of Sovereignty in the Later Middle Ages: The Papal Monarchy with Augustinus Triumphus and the Publicists (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: New Series, Series Number 9)

History

Wilks, Michael

Europe

Cambridge University Press

Sovereignty has always been an important concept in political thought, and at no time in European history was it more important than during the perplexed conditions of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Universal government was a fading dream, giving way to the new conception of the national state and the whole basis of political thought was being reorientated by the influx of Aristotelian ideas. Dr Wilks's book is an attempt to clarify the more important problems in the political outlook of the period. He shows that at this time the theologians and literary writers, especially Augustinus Triumphus of Ancona, had built up a complete theory of sovereignty in favour of the papal monarchy, based on a neo-Platonic, Augustinian view of the church as a universal and totalitarian state.

This book examines the work of two influential English philosophers and theologians of the 14th century - Ockham and Wyclif. The chapters reflect the current concern with the editing of Ockham's writings, his career and political work, his influence on the later philosophy of Oxford and his relation to other Oxford writers of the 14th century. The discussion of Wyclif represents a re-assessment of the chronology and significance of his writings, and the major topics of his theology and philosophy. The book contains an analysis of the different contacts between the thought of Ockham and that of Wyclif, and concludes with an assessment of the spread of Wyclif's thought, from the 14th to the 16th century, and from England to Bohemia.

From Ockham to Wyclif (STUDIES IN CHURCH HISTORY SUBSIDIA)

Politics & Social Sciences

Hudson, Anne

Philosophy

Boydell & Brewer Inc

Illusion(?)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Beckworth Publishers

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