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7Le Siège de Germigny en BourbonnaisBulletin d'Emulation du Bourbonnais 80 (3): 388-404. 2021.In 12th-Century France, political Augustinianism inherited from Gregory and Isidore was based on the absolute supremacy of spiritual power over temporal power in the name of the absolute primacy of grace over fallen nature. This could easily solve the question of what should true dominium be in a society based on Christian values. Just rule was connected with a ruler who was sanctioned by the Church: the king of France, defender of the Pax Dei. The Siege of Germigny shows how cynical realpolitik…Read more
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6Saint- Gilles, Laon, Germigny: Iconologie d’une représentation politique de la Vierge dans le“style 1200”de Medio Aevo 15 (1): 231-240. 2021.According to Carl Schmitt's concept of the political, the specific distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy. In the Middle Ages, Peter the Venerable (1092-1156), the abbot of Cluny, was the first to conceive the Church as a spatial entity surrounded and contrastively shaped by the the nature of its assailants: Jewish, Muslim, and heterodox religious competitors. From then on, the Ecclesia perceived and established itself as a fortress con…Read more
Université Paris 4
PhD, 2001
Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
History of Political Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |