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One of the most important later medieval thinkers, the Franciscan theologian and philosopher William of Ockham (c. 1285–c. 1349) was also the main political theorist in fourteenth-century England. His main political works are: Opus nonaginta dierum (c. 1333), Dialogus de potestate papae et imperatoris (1334–1341), Octo quaestiones de potestate pape (1340–1341), and Breviloquium de principatu tyrannico (1342).
Originally published in Mortimer Sellers and Stephan Kirste, Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, © Springer Nature B.V. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_636-1.
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Simonetta, S. (2023). Ockham, William. In: Zanetti, G., Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Handbook of the History of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Studies in the History of Law and Justice, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19542-6_35
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