TY - BOOK ID - 101467760 TI - Against the backdrop of sovereignty and absolutism : the theology of God's power and its bearing on the Western legal tradition, 1100-1600 PY - 2022 SN - 9789004503700 9789004503694 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Christianity and politics KW - History of civilization KW - anno 1200-1499 KW - anno 1100-1199 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Pouvoir (théologie chrétienne). KW - Absolutisme religieux. KW - Souveraineté KW - Public law KW - Power (Christian theology) KW - Law, Medieval. KW - Law KW - Authoritarianism KW - Sovereignty KW - Religion KW - Christianisme. KW - Philosophy. KW - Christian influences. KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101467760 AB - This book attempts to determine the degree to which the modern fate of the Western legal tradition depends on one of the most long-standing debates of the Middle Ages, the distinction between potentia Dei absoluta and ordinata (God's absolute and ordered power). The mediaeval investigation into God's attributes was originally concerned with the problem of divine almightiness but underwent a slow but steady displacement from the territory of theology to the freshly emerging proceedings of legal analysis. Here, based on the distinction, late-mediaeval lawyers worked out a new terminology to define the extent of the power-holder's authority. This effort would give rise, during the early modern era, to the gradual establishment of the legal-political framework represented by the concepts of the prince and sovereignty. ER -