Marriage Advice for a Pope: John XXII and the Power to Dissolve

Bok av Patrick Nold
This book reconstructs the scholastic arguments about marital indissolubility and papal power that lay behind John XXIIa (TM)s 1322 constitution "Antique Concertationi." It illustrates the dynamic relationship between canon law and theology, and the tensions between papal authority and academic expertise, that animated a controversial pontificate