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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2009
      September 2007
      ISBN:
      9780511497223
      9780521845816
      9780521143981
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497223
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 322 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 322 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (69)
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    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (69)
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    The English Franciscan William of Ockham (c.1285–1347) was one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in late medieval Europe. Fresh scholarship has shown his profound impact on logic, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of language in the late Middle Ages and beyond. Following a dispute between the papacy and his Order, Ockham abandoned his academic career and devoted himself to anti-papal polemics. Scholars have produced divergent and often contradictory interpretations of Ockham as a political thinker: a destructive critic of the medieval Church, a medieval Catholic traditionalist, the Franciscan ideologue, and a constitutional liberal. This 2007 book offers a fresh reappraisal of Ockham's political thought by approaching his anti-papal writings as a series of polemical responses. His aggressive and persistent attack on the papacy emerges in this study as an attempt to rescue the ethical foundations of the Christian society from the political influences of heretical popes.

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    Review of the hardback:'… Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages is without doubt a very carefully prepared work, reflecting scrupulousness and precision in its research methods.'

    Leonardo Marchettoni Source: Iura Gentium: Rivista di filosofia del diritto internazionale e della politica globale

    Review of the hardback:'Shogimen’s careful readings and precise contextualization bring to the fore a full picture of an Ockham who has been only dimly viewed in the past. Serious scholars of medieval thought owe him a large debt of gratitude for writing a volume that will be read and debated for decades to come.'

    Source: The Review of Politics

    Review of the hardback:'Shogimen's work has likely begun a new chapter in the scholarship of Ockham's political writings by introducing more expressly theological elements into the mixture and this book will certainly deserve a place next to the analyses of McGrade, Kilcullen, Miethke and Tierney in the library of any student of Ockham.'

    Source: Medievalia et Humanistica

    Review of the hardback:'… the overall interpretation of Ockham's political thought is challenging, all the more since Shogimen focuses on what interested his subject most, ecclesiastical affairs, rather than temporal regimes. Ockham, as he is presented here, was a theologian trying to re-establish what he saw as the right order of the church, a political theologian and not a political theorist in our terms.'

    Source: Speculum

    '… an important and illuminating exploration of the theological and moral purpose behind Ockham’s political writings.'

    Source: Heythrop Journal

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