If you like Boniface VIII, read these authors
1235–1303 · pope of the Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303
Also known as: Bonifatius VIII., Benedetto Caetani, Benedetto Gaetani, Benedetto Gaetano, Benedict Caetani, Benedictus Caetani
Similar authors
This list comes from an AI, not yet from reader data. Once enough readers like Boniface VIII, their data replaces the AI suggestions.
Giles of Rome1243–1316ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis treatise De ecclesiastica potestate argues the hierocratic papal supremacy theory that underlies Unam sanctam. (AI reason)
Innocent III1160–1216ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis decretals and letters articulate papal plenitude of power in a similar juridical Latin register. (AI reason)
- John of Paris1240–1306ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
De potestate regia et papali responds directly to the church–state disputes of the bulls, from the royal side. (AI reason)
Gregory VIII1100–1187ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetThe Dictatus papae and his letters set out papal claims over secular rulers in terse legal form. (AI reason)
Gregory IX1170–1241ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis Decretales are the canon-law collection that the Liber Sextus directly continues. (AI reason)
Show all 10
Marsilius of Padua1275–1342ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetDefensor pacis offers the classic counter-argument to hierocratic papal theory. (AI reason)
Dante Alighieri1265–1321ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetDe Monarchia engages the same debate over papal and imperial power. (AI reason)
- GratianReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
The Decretum is the foundational text of the canon-law tradition codified in the Liber Sextus. (AI reason)
William of Ockham1287–1349ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis polemical political treatises dispute the limits of papal power in scholastic Latin. (AI reason)
Pick Boniface VIII and a few more favorite authors to get suggestions that fit you.
Get your own suggestionsKnown works
- Antiquorum habet fida relatio (2000)
- Reuelationes sancte Birgitte
- Les registres de Boniface VIII
- Incipit sextus liber Decretalium
- Sext[us] decretalium liber per Bonifaciu[m] octauum pontifice[m] sanctissimu[m] in Lugdunensi co[n]cilio editus