269. Our Power is Real: the Clash of Church and State

Giles of Rome and Dante on the rival claims of the church and secular rulers.

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• H.W. Schneider, Dante: On World-Government (New York: 1957).

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• J. Canning, Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296–1417 (Cambridge: 2014).

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• U. Limentani, “Dante’s Political Thought,” in U. Limentani (ed.), The Mind of Dante (Cambridge: 1965), 113-37.

• G. McAleer, “Giles of Rome on Political Authority,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 60 (1999), 21-36.

• J. Miethke, De potestate papae. Die päpstliche Amtskompetenz im Widerstreit der politischen Theorie von Thomas von Aquin bis Wilhelm von Ockham (Tübingen: 2000).

• M. Wilks, The Problem of Sovereignty in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge: 1963).

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