Title: Church law and constitutional thought in the Middle Ages /
Authors: Tierney, Brian.
Date: 1979
Publisher: Variorum Reprints,
Physical description: ca. 350 p. in various pagings : [1] ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: L
Contents: Some recent works on the political theories of the Medieval Canonists -- Pope and council : some new Decretist texts -- "The prince is not bound by the laws" : Accursius and the origins of the modern state -- Bracton on government -- The continuity of papal political theory in the thirteenth century : some methodological considerations -- Grosseteste and the theory of papal sovereignty -- Natura id est Deus : a case of juristic pantheism? -- The Decretists and the "deserving poor" -- "Sola Scriptura" and the Canonists -- A scriptural text in the Decretales and in St. Thomas : Canonistic Exegesis of Luke 22-32 -- Ockham, the Conciliar Theory, and the Canonists -- Hermeneutics and history : the problem of Haec Sancta -- "Divided sovereignty" at Constance : a problem of Medieval and early modern political theory -- "Only the truth has authority" : the problem of "reception" in the Decretists and in Johannis de Turrecremata -- Medieval Canon Law and Western Constitutionalism.
Notes: Essays by Brian Tierney, previously published between 1954 and 1977.
Subject headings (LCSH): Canon law--History.; Constitutional history, Medieval.