HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Defensor Pacis, Hohenstaufen, Guelphs And Ghibellines
10 Nov 2020
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Franciscans had been skeptical of private property ownership. Especially for their own convents: pope john xxii. Some franciscans argued that jesus and the 12 were personally poor. He summoned michael of cesena and ockham to avignon. Michael of cesena was the head of the franciscan order. Ockham and michael both fled to the hre. They were hosted at the court of wittelsbach-habsburg hre. The franciscans were joined by marsilius of padua. In 1324, he wrote his masterpiece of political thought. He argued against the temporal power of popes. He was an imperialist writing for the hre. His argument for non-papal temporal power could be used by other monarchs: kings of france. French kings had little interest in limiting papal power. Defense of imperial prerogative over papal overreach was not astonishing. Marsilius is systematic in his approach to political theory: systemic. Legitimacy of this sovereign use of coercive force is derived from the will of the people.
