James of Viterbo: De regimine Christiano
ISBN: 9789047429418
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL
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Subjects: German literature; Biography as a literary form.; Literature and anthropology.;

James of Viterbo's De regimine Christiano was produced at the height of the great conflict of 1296-1303 between Pope Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair of France. Echoing and elaborating Boniface's Bull Unam sanctam , the treatise is a detailed and rigorous defence of the 'hierocratic' ideology of the thirteenth-century papacy in its most ambitious form. As such, it stands alongside the better-known De ecclesiastica potestate of Giles of Rome , by which it is to some extent influenced. De regimine Christiano is here presented in a new and complete critical edition, accompanied by an English translation and a detailed introduction. This edition will be of value to scholars and students of the history of political thought and international relations.



Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History , vol. 6


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