Title: Ockham and political discourse in the late Middle Ages /
Authors: Shōgimen, Takashi, 1967-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: William, Political and social views.; Political science Philosophy; Middle Ages.
Abstract: "The English Franciscan William of Ockham (c. 1285-1347) was one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in late medieval Europe. This book offers a fresh reappraisal of Ockham's political thought by approaching his anti-papal writings as a series of polemical responses. His aggressive and persistent attack on the papacy emerges in this study as an attempt to rescue the ethical foundations of the Christian society from the political influences of heretical popes."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: The poverty controversy -- A general theory of heresy -- The problem of papal heresy -- Papal plenitudo potestatis -- Petrine primacy -- The defence of human freedom -- Appendix : Ockham's 'Dialogus' and Marsilius' 'Defensor pacis'.