James of Viterbo
De Regimine Christiano : a Critical Edition and Translation
Description:... 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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