Conciliarism, Humanism and Law - Justifications of Authority and Power, c. 1400–c. 1520 - Joseph Canning - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press

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Set against the background of juristic thought and addressing the arguments that people at the time found convincing, this study explores how power and authority were justified in late medieval Europe, through the two key intellectual movements of the fifteenth century: conciliarism in the church, and humanism.