Etat, empire et droit dans l'oeuvre de dante
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Abstract EN:
Analysing the medieval structures of knowledge and dissociating dante's political theory from those of ecclesiastical authorities, this work results in a philosophical and historical approach. It questions a plurality of discourses, of narrations, of institutions, and events of antiquity, middle ages and the modern era, and caracterises certain "enjeux" of the renaissance of roman law at the time of dante. Assuring the promotion of human rights and the imperial ideal without surpassing all the themes of theology, dante at least was moving towards an understanding of human history. The thesis is composed of four parts. The first studies the medieval intellectual structures and explores the theological domains organized by augustinism and by those who assimilated the works of aristotle. The second part evaluates dante's sayings on the subjects of law contradicting the theocratic ideal. The third part evokes the relations between medieval doctrine of the state and the idea and the image of the church. The fourth part considers dante's historical conscience and the question of paradise.
Abstract FR:
Analysant les structures medievales du savoir, dissociant la theorie politique de dante de celle des autorites ecclesiastiques, ce travail resulte d'une approche philosophique et historique. Il interroge une pluralite de discours, de narrations, d'institutions et d'evenements antiques, medievaux et modernes, et caracterise certains enjeux de la renaissance du droit romain a l'epoque de dante. Assurant la promotion du droit humain et de l'ideal imperial sans surmonter tous les themes de la theologie, dante s'est neanmoins achemine vers la comprehension de l'histoire humaine. La these comprend quatre parties. La premiere partie etudie les structures intellectuelles medievales et explore le domaine theologique organise par l'augustinisme et par ceux qui assimilerent les oeuvres d'aristote. La deuxieme partie evalue ce que dit dante au sujet de la loi tout en contestant l'ideal theocratique. La troisieme partie evoque les rapports entre les doctrines medievales de l'etat et l'idee ou l'image de l'eglise. La quatrieme considere la conscience historique dantesque et la question du paradis.