Dominium, sovereignties and powers. Some considerations following two books on the history of medieval political thought

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Paolo Evangelisti
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The comparative discussion of the two volumes highlights their specific didactic approach and the historical contextualization of the sources thus offering new perspectives on the history of medieval political thought. The specific features of the two books are also underlined. Among them: the relevance of legal knowledge in the volume by Lambertini and Conetti, the centrality of Brunetto Latini and Tolomeo da Lucca in Briguglia’s, the reapparaisal of the role of politi-cal aristotelianism, which is shared by the three scholars. Moreover, the volumes reconsider Quidort’s conception of dominium, expressed in his De potestate regia, by comparing it to the textualiy that discussed the ownership and status of money in the 14th century. Secondly, this same concept of Quidort is compared to the discussion about the personal nature of property taxes elaborated by two jurists, Bérmond de Montferrier and Pierre Jame between the end of 13th and the mid-14th century.




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Evangelisti, Paolo. 2020. “Dominium, Sovereignties and Powers. Some Considerations Following Two Books on the History of Medieval Political Thought”. Reti Medievali Journal 21 (1), 35-69. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/6754.
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