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Author Traversino, Massimiliano, author.

Title Against the backdrop of sovereignty and absolutism : the theology of God's power and its bearing on the Western legal tradition, 1100-1600 / by Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages)
Series Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; volume 34
History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 34.
Contents Introduction -- A normative history of power : the distinction between potentia Dei absoluta and ordinata -- The theology of God's power as an archaeology of the modern notion of power -- The classic age of the distinction : the pontificate of John XXII (1316-34) -- The distinction in the early-modern era : Bruno, Gentili, and the sixteenth century debate on Native Americans -- Gentili's religion and the secularization of the theology of God's power -- Conclusion
Summary "With a foreword by Diego Quaglioni this book attempts to determine the degree to which the modern fate of the Western legal tradition depends on one of the most long-standing debates of the Middle Ages, the distinction between potentia Dei absoluta and ordinata (God's absolute and ordered power). The mediaeval investigation into God's attributes was originally concerned with the problem of divine almightiness. It underwent a slow but steady displacement from the territory of theology to the freshly emerging proceedings of legal analysis. Here, based on the distinction, late-mediaeval lawyers worked out a new terminology to define the extent of the power-holder's authority. This effort would give rise, during the early modern era, to the gradual establishment of the legal-political framework represented by the concepts of the prince and sovereignty"-- Provided by the publisher
Notes Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Birkbeck College, 2017)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 22, 2022)
Subject Public law -- Philosophy
Power (Christian theology)
Law, Medieval.
Law -- Christian influences.
Authoritarianism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Sovereignty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Electronic books.
e-books.
Electronic books
Authoritarianism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Law -- Christian influences
Law, Medieval
Power (Christian theology)
Public law -- Philosophy
Sovereignty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Form Electronic book
Author Quaglioni, Diego, writer of foreword.
LC no. 2021049263
ISBN 9789004503700
9004503706