Rights, Laws and Infallibility in Medieval Thought

List of contents

Contents: Religion and rights: a medieval perspective; Origins of natural rights language: texts and contexts, 1150-1250; Ius and metonymy in Rufinus; Religious rights: an historical perspective; Aristotle and the American Indians - again: two critical discussions; Public expediency and natural law: a 14th-century discussion on the origins of government and property; Canon law and church institutions in the late middle ages; Tria quippe distinguit iudicia’...A note on Innocent III’s decretal Per venerabilem; Two Anglo-Norman summae; Hostiensis and collegiality; The idea of representation in the medieval councils of the West; Hierarchy, consent and the ’Western tradition’; Aristotle, Aquinas, and the ideal constitution; Natural law and canon law in Ockham’s Dialogus; From Thomas of York to William of Ockham: the Franciscans and the papal Sollicitudo Omnium Ecclesiarum 1250-1350; Origins of papal infallibility; Infallibility in morals: a response; John Peter Olivi and papal inerrancy: on a recent interpretation of Olivi’s Ecclesiology; Index.

About the author

Brian Tierney

Summary

Eighteen articles, concerned with the origin and early development of the idea of natural rights, aspects of medieval law and political thought with an overview of modern work on medieval canon law, and the history of papal infallibility with reference to the tradition of Franciscan ecclesiology.

Additional text

’..the essays in this volume constitute an important distillation of scholarship on the history of medieval canon law and political theory. We see the A[uthor] at his absolute best- challenging cherished but untenable views, creatively reworking the whole tradition of medieval political and legal historiography, and even occasionally breaking some icons. This is an important work that allows one to grasp fully the range and importance of his scholarship. His work on rights, on religious liberty, on papal infallibility and the many other themes touched on in this collection is as timely and compelling now as when first written.’ Studia Canonica, Vol. 32

Product details

• Authors: Brian Tierney, Tierney Brian
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780860786481
• ISBN: 978-0-86078-648-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, HISTORY / World, RELIGION / Christian Church / Canon & Ecclesiastical Law, General & world history, CE period up to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, General and world history, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Ecclesiastical (canon) law, Systems of law: ecclesiastical (canon) law, Cardinalis;Metonymy;Hostiensis