Popular Authority in Conciliar and Canonistic Thought
The Case of Elections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4089048 |
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| Authors | Alexander Russell (0000-0002-8228-6238, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 231 |
| Pages | 313-340 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revue de l histoire des religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-1423 • E-ISSN: 2105-2573 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/rhr.8254 |
| OpenAlex | W1553529398 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper assesses the place of laypeople in the thought of 15th-century conciliarists. The dangers associated with heresy inclined the conciliarists towards a restrictive view of lay participation in doctrinal debates and ecclesiastical government. Yet, in legal commentaries regarding canonical elections, conciliarists like Francesco Zabarella and Niccolò Tudeschi admitted that popular participation in canonical elections was to be tolerated under certain conditions. This paper argues that the intellectual method of the canonists as well as certain practical considerations account for their open-mindedness about lay participation in canonical elections
Government (linguistics) · Heresy · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Historical Studies of British Isles · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Highly cited | No |
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