Papal Hierocratic Theory in the High Middle Ages : From Roman Primacy to Universal Papal Monarchy

ISBN-13: 9783639126082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 196 str.

Keith Sisson

Opis

This study examines the development of the§hierocratic theory of government in the High Middle§Ages, especially during the Franco-papal conflict,§1296-1303. Hierocratic ideas that the papacy held§supreme authority in both spiritual and temporal§matters flourished during the High Middle Ages, and§they continued to evolve until the early fourteenth§century. Given this development, a perennial§question became ever more pressing: what is the§proper relation between the spiritual and temporal§powers? §§This debate culminated in the spirited Franco-papal§conflict of the late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth§centuries between Pope Boniface VIII and the king of§France, Philip IV, also known as Philip the Fair. §The result of this conflict was a decline of the§medieval papacy in both prestige and power.§§I hope this study will benefit historians interested§in medieval political thought, especially those§interested in Aegidian studies, the Franco-papal§crisis, and the hierocratic doctrine of universal§papal monarchy.

O autorze

Keith Sisson holds a PhD in medieval history from the University
of Memphis. He also studied at the Center for Medieval Studies
at Fordham University in New York. He is currently an instructor
of Interdisciplinary Studies, University College, at the
University of Memphis.