| Description |
xxxiv, 215 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought |
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Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Note on references -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Principal dates in Ockham's life -- Suggestions for further reading -- A Short Discourse on the Tyrannical Government over things -- Divine and human, but especially over the Empire and those subject to the Empire -- Usurped by some who are called Highest Pontiffs -- Prologue -- Book I -- Book II -- Book III -- Book IV -- Book V -- Book VI -- Appendix: text and translation -- Bibliography -- Index of references to the Bible -- Index of references to canon law -- Index of persons -- Subject index |
| Summary |
William of Ockham was the most eminent theologian and philosopher of his day, a Franciscan friar who came to believe that the Avignonese papacy of John XXII had set out to destroy the religious ideal on which his order was based: the complete poverty of Christ and the Apostles. A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government is an attack on the claims of the medieval Church, specifically the papacy, to universal spiritual and secular power. Written at the time of the emergence of the European nation-states, Ockham's work issued a direct hard-hitting challenge to the claims of limitless papal power |
| Analysis |
Christianity Related to Politics |
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Europe |
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Christianity Related to Politics |
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Europe |
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Political science - Early works to 1800 |
| Notes |
Translated from the Latin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-197) and indexes |
| Notes |
Translated from the Latin |
| Subject |
Political science -- Early works to 1800.
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| Author |
McGrade, Arthur Stephen.
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| LC no. |
91019638 |
| ISBN |
0521352428 |
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0521358035 (paperback) |
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