Stefania Tutino
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199740536
- eISBN:
- 9780199894765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199740536.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter focuses on France, where both James’s Oath of Allegiance and Bellarmine’s theory were vivaciously and dramatically debated, especially after the assassination of King Henri IV by a ...
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This chapter focuses on France, where both James’s Oath of Allegiance and Bellarmine’s theory were vivaciously and dramatically debated, especially after the assassination of King Henri IV by a Catholic fanatic and supporter of the Jesuits in 1610. The first section of this chapter offers an overview of the issues at stake by exploring the link between Papal authority, tyrannicide, and the doctrine of Papal deposition of heretical princes. A second section shows how Bellarmine’ theories were at the forefront of a crucial political debate involving Rome, London, and Paris by analyzing the reaction of the Parlement to Bellarmine’s theory. Another section of this chapter illustrates the significance of Bellarmine’s theory in another, parallel, debate, involving the role and nature of the Catholic Church in France, the relationship between the French Gallican tradition and the Roman centralizing tendencies, the political and ecclesiological force of Conciliarist theories. More specifically, this section will examine closely the theological debate within the Sorbonne between Edmond Richer and André Duval.Less
This chapter focuses on France, where both James’s Oath of Allegiance and Bellarmine’s theory were vivaciously and dramatically debated, especially after the assassination of King Henri IV by a Catholic fanatic and supporter of the Jesuits in 1610. The first section of this chapter offers an overview of the issues at stake by exploring the link between Papal authority, tyrannicide, and the doctrine of Papal deposition of heretical princes. A second section shows how Bellarmine’ theories were at the forefront of a crucial political debate involving Rome, London, and Paris by analyzing the reaction of the Parlement to Bellarmine’s theory. Another section of this chapter illustrates the significance of Bellarmine’s theory in another, parallel, debate, involving the role and nature of the Catholic Church in France, the relationship between the French Gallican tradition and the Roman centralizing tendencies, the political and ecclesiological force of Conciliarist theories. More specifically, this section will examine closely the theological debate within the Sorbonne between Edmond Richer and André Duval.
Jean Dunbabin
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208464
- eISBN:
- 9780191678028
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208464.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
The tenth century is very ill-served. Whether through civil war, alien aggression, or simple loss of self-confidence, the habit of recording events wore sadly thin. In fact, the period 888–987 in ...
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The tenth century is very ill-served. Whether through civil war, alien aggression, or simple loss of self-confidence, the habit of recording events wore sadly thin. In fact, the period 888–987 in West Frankish history is almost as much a dark age as the seventh century. The historian's task therefore consists of piecing together tiny snippets of information, often ambiguous in import, to create a picture that makes sense when put against the much fuller view derived from the ampler sources of the late tenth and eleventh century. The pitfalls in his path are substantial, the challenge great. Many of the chronicles on which historians have to rely for tenth-century West Francia were compiled in the eleventh century; because of the lateness of their testimony, their use involves more complex value judgements. However, there are two tenth-century chronicles that provide a starting-point for the construction of political history, those of Flodoard of Rheims and Richer.Less
The tenth century is very ill-served. Whether through civil war, alien aggression, or simple loss of self-confidence, the habit of recording events wore sadly thin. In fact, the period 888–987 in West Frankish history is almost as much a dark age as the seventh century. The historian's task therefore consists of piecing together tiny snippets of information, often ambiguous in import, to create a picture that makes sense when put against the much fuller view derived from the ampler sources of the late tenth and eleventh century. The pitfalls in his path are substantial, the challenge great. Many of the chronicles on which historians have to rely for tenth-century West Francia were compiled in the eleventh century; because of the lateness of their testimony, their use involves more complex value judgements. However, there are two tenth-century chronicles that provide a starting-point for the construction of political history, those of Flodoard of Rheims and Richer.
