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James of Viterbo: On Christian Government (De regimine Christiano). Edited, translated, and introduced by R. W. DYSON. Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydell Press, 1995. xxvii + 160 pp. $45.00.
James of Viterbo succeeded his confrere Giles of Rome as regent master in theology at Paris after the latter resigned to become prior general of the Augustinian order. James was named archbishop of Benevento in September 1302 and three months later, at the behest of King Charles II, became archbishop of Naples, where he oversaw the completion of the city's Angevin Gothic cathedral and died in 1308.
Highly regarded for his intellectual attainments, James is most noted for his essay in political theory, On Christian Government, which is presented here in English translation. It was written at the height of the controversy between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip the...