Ideas of Poer in the Late Middle Ages, 1296}}}1417 [Hardcover]

Proposes a radically new interpretation of late medieval political thought by focusing on ideas of power and authority.This systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writing reveals contemporary ideas about power and legitimate authority and explores how they developed over the course of the 'long fourteenth century'. It addresses the most fundamental question in political thought  where does legitimate authority lie?This systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writing reveals contemporary ideas about power and legitimate authority and explores how they developed over the course of the 'long fourteenth century'. It addresses the most fundamental question in political thought  where does legitimate authority lie?Through a focused and systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writers  theologians, philosophers and jurists  Joseph Canning explores how ideas about power and legitimate authority were developed over the 'long fourteenth century'. The author provides a new model for understanding late medieval political thought, taking full account of the intensive engagement with political reality characteristic of writers in this period. He argues that they used Aristotelian and Augustinian ideas to develop radically new approaches to power and authority, especially in response to political and religious crises. The book examines the disputes between King Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII and draws upon the writings of Dante Alighieri, Marsilius of Padua, William of Ockham, Bartolus, Baldus and John Wyclif to demonstrate the variety of forms of discourse used in the period. It focuses on the most fundamental problem in the history of political thought  where does legitimate authority lie?Introduction; 1. Ideas of power and authority during the disputes between Philip IV and Boniface VIII; 2. Dante Alighieri: the approach of political philosophy; 3. Marsilius of Padua; 4. Power and powerlessness in the poverty debates; 5. The trelsß