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Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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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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