Marsiglio of Padua
Subtitle: 'Defensor minor' and 'De translatione imperii' (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Contributors: Cary J. Nederman (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 25, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780521408462
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History of ideas, intellectual history; Politics / Current Events; General; Politics/International Relations; Europe; Political Science / Reference; State, The--Early works to 1800; Early works to 1800; Church and state; Political Science; State, The
First sentence: We have previously read in earlier works, according to the claims of the Master of the 'Sentences' [Peter Lombard], that priests have a certain power of binding and also of loosing, namely, of excommunicating sinners and cutting them off from spiritual as well as civil or temporal association [communicatio] and from fellowship with others of the faithful-powers which they call 'jurisdiction'.