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This book attempts to determine the degree to which the modern fate of the Western legal tradition depends on one of the most long-standing debates of the Middle Ages, the distinction between potentia Dei absoluta and ordinata (God's absolute and ordered power). The mediaeval investigation into God's attributes was originally concerned with the problem of divine almightiness but underwent a slow but steady displacement from the territory of theology to the freshly emerging proceedings of legal analysis. Here, based on the distinction, late-mediaeval lawyers worked out a new terminology to define the extent of the power-holder's authority. This effort would give rise, during the early modern era, to the gradual establishment of the legal-political framework represented by the concepts of the prince and sovereignty.

Christianity and politics --- History of civilization --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Pouvoir (théologie chrétienne). --- Absolutisme religieux. --- Souveraineté --- Public law --- Power (Christian theology) --- Law, Medieval. --- Law --- Authoritarianism --- Sovereignty --- Religion --- Christianisme. --- Philosophy. --- Christian influences. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity.

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"Feminism, absolutism, and Jansenism chronicles seventy years of Jansenist conflict and its complex intersection with power struggles between gallican bishops, Parlementaires, the Crown, and the pope. Daniella Kostroun focuses on the nuns of Port-Royal-des-Champs, whose community was disbanded by Louis XIV in 1709 as a threat to the state. Paradoxically, it was the nuns' adherence to their strict religious rule and the ideal of pious, innocent, and politically disinterested behavior that allowed them to challenge absolutism effectively. Adopting methods from cultural studies, feminism, and the Cambridge school of political thought, Kostroun examines how these nuns placed gender at the heart of the Jansenist challenge to the patriarchal and religious foundations of absolutism; they responded to royal persecution with a feminist defense of women's spiritual and rational equality and of the autonomy of the individual subject, thereby offering a bold challenge to the patriarchal and religious foundations of absolutism"--Provided by publisher.

Cistercian nuns --- Jansenists --- Patriarchy --- Feminism --- Despotism --- Religious absolutism --- History --- Louis --- Political and social views. --- Port-Royal des Champs (Abbey) --- France --- Politics and government --- Religion --- -Jansenists --- -Patriarchy --- -Feminism --- -Despotism --- -Religious absolutism --- -273.7 <44 PORT-ROYAL> --- Absolutism, Religious --- Religions --- Absolutism --- Autocracy --- Tyranny --- Authoritarianism --- Dictatorship --- Totalitarianism --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Androcracy --- Patriarchal families --- Fathers --- Families --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Patrilineal kinship --- Christian sects --- Nuns --- -History --- -Jansenisme in Port-Royal --- Emancipation --- Li︠u︡dovik --- Ludwig --- Sun King, --- Luis --- Ludvig --- Solkungen, --- Lewis, --- -Port-Royal (Abbey : Chevreuse Valley, France) --- Portus Regius (Abbey : Chevreuse Valley, France) --- Port-Royal des Champs (Abbey of Cistercian nuns) --- Port-Royal de Paris (Abbey) --- -France --- -Religion --- -Cistercian nuns --- 273.7 <44 PORT-ROYAL> Jansenisme in Port-Royal --- Jansenisme in Port-Royal --- Lodewijk --- le Roi-Soleil --- Louis le Grand --- de Zonnekoning --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Frankrig --- Francja --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Prantsusmaa --- Francia (Republic) --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Fa-kuo --- Faguo --- Франция --- French Republic --- République française --- Peurancih --- Frankryk --- Franse Republiek --- Francland --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- فرنسا --- Faransā --- Franza --- Republica Franzesa --- Gallia (Republic) --- Hyãsia --- Phransiya --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Францыя --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Parancis --- Pransya --- Franis --- Francuska --- Republika Francuska --- Bro-C'hall --- Френска република --- Frenska republika --- França --- República Francesa --- Pransiya --- Republikang Pranses --- Γαλλία --- Gallia --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- فرانسه --- Farānsah --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- פראנקרייך --- 法国 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- フランス --- Furansu --- フランス共和国 --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Francija --- Ranska --- Frankrike --- 273.7 <44 PORT-ROYAL> --- Port-Royal (Abbey : Chevreuse Valley, France) --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Political and social views --- 프랑스 --- Falanxi --- Fa-lan-hsi --- 法蘭西 --- Frankrijk --- Frant︠s︡ --- Франц --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Франц Улс --- Cistercian nuns - France - History - 17th century --- Jansenists - France - History - 17th century --- Patriarchy - France - History - 17th century --- Feminism - France - History - 17th century --- Despotism - France - History - 17th century --- Religious absolutism - France - History - 17th century --- Louis - XIV, - King of France, - 1638-1715 - Political and social views --- France - Politics and government - 1643-1715 --- France - Religion - 17th century --- Arts and Humanities --- Louis XIV (roi de France ; 1638-1715) --- Abbaye de Port-Royal-des-Champs --- Cisterciennes --- Jansénistes --- Absolutisme religieux --- Féminisme --- Pensée politique et sociale --- 17e siècle --- Histoire religieuse --- Politique et gouvernement --- 1643-1715 --- Louis - XIV, - King of France, - 1638-1715