教会至上与教皇至上（影印本）

Almostontheeveofthesixteenth-centuryReformation,thelong-runningdebateovertherespectiveauthorityofpopesandcouncilsintheCaholicChurchwasvigorouslyresumed.InthiscollectiontheeditorsbringtogetherthefirstEnglishtranslationoffourmajorcontributionstothatdebate.Inthesetexts.complexargumentsderivedfromScripture,theolotyandcanonlawaredeployed.Theissuesthatemerge,however,provetohaveabroadersignificance.Whatisforshadowedhereistheconfrontationbetweenabsolutismandconstitutionalismwhichwastobeadominantthemeinthepoliticsofearly-modernEuropeandbeyond.Evenonthethresholdofthetwenty-firstcenturytheconcernsthatunderlieandanimatethescholasticdisputationsinthesepagesretaintheirforce.Thisvolumeincludesintroductorymaterialwhichelucidatesthecontextofthedebate,aswellasacomprehensivebibliography.