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William of Ockham. Dialogas. Part 2. Part 3,Tract 1. Edited by John Kilcullen, John Scott, Jan Ballweg, and Volker Leppin. [William of Ockham Opera Política VIII; Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 20.] (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2011. Pp. xxvi, 371. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-19726480-5.)
The Dialogas is William of Ockham's magnum opus of political theory. A massive three-part work begun around 1332, only its first section reached its intended form at Ockham's death in 1347. Sections of the Dialogas are scattered amid roughly forty manuscripts; the full work seems to have been collected together shortly before the first of its three printings (1476,1494, and 1614). Now the Dialogus is receiving a critical edition in the final volumes of the William of Ockham Opera Política series, which had previously published Ockham's shorter political works in four volumes under the editorship...