Theoretical Grounds of the Expiration of the Legal Order in the De Ecclesiastica Potestate of Aegidius Romanus

  • Francisco Bertelloni Universidad de Buenos Aires, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Keywords: Aegydius Romanus, plenitudo potestatis, Papal theocracy, Casus imminens, Papal power

Abstract

Scholars who devoted their attention to Medieval political thinking have correctly typified Aegydius Romanus’s doctrine as the purest model of the so-called Papal Theocracy or Hierocracy. It was precisely that theocratic character which left unadvertised its theoretical importance and, consequently, minimised the strength of the conceptual groundings of Aegydius’s political theory on absolute power. This article points to two directions: in the first place, it reconstructs the argumentation that Aegydius used to get to the notion of casus imminens; in the second place, it points out (and stresses) the theoretical links that relate the casus imminens with the theory of the totality of power (plenitudo potestatis).

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Published
2001-08-06
How to Cite
Bertelloni, F. (2001). Theoretical Grounds of the Expiration of the Legal Order in the De Ecclesiastica Potestate of Aegidius Romanus. Patristica Et Mediævalia, 22, 17-29. Retrieved from http://revistascientificas2.filo.uba.ar/index.php/petm/article/view/7876
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