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John of Paris: Beyond Royal and Papal Power ed. by Chris Jones (review)

John of Paris: Beyond Royal and Papal Power. Edited by Chris Jones. [Disputatio, vol. 23.] (Turnhout: Brepols. 2015. Pp. xiv, 421. €100,00. ISBN 978-2-5033280-6).John of Paris has not been studied as systematically as other Dominicans like Thomas Aquinas or as other anti-papal polemicists such as Dante, Marsilius of Padua, or John Wyclif. This makes him a prime candidate for that latest milk cow of academic publishing: the "Companion" genre of collected articles.The editor, Chris Jones, introduces his apt volume with a nice survey of John of Paris's life and of recent scholarship. On June 26, 1303, John of Paris signed a petition originating at the court of King Philip the Fair that called for a general council against Pope Boniface VIII. John's famous work, De potestate regia et papali, forms part of this conflict. It is not, however, his only surviving work: John also authored an attack on critics of Thomas Aquinas with the Correctorium Corrupti 'Circa, ' a criticism of secular attacks on mendicant privileges in De confessionibus audiendis, and a censure of Arnald of Villanova's prediction of the Antichrist's advent with his Tractatus de Antichristo, a critique of transubstantiation in his Determinatio de modo existendi corporis Christi in sacramento altaris, some comparatively uncontroversial sermons, and a neglected Sentences Commentary. Each of these receives some attention-though the treatment of preaching and confession is scant-but the book really does not go all that far beyond Royal and Papal Power. The majority of articles are focused on the De potestate regia et papali. There are traditional analyses of its political theory by Joseph Canning, Gerson Moreno-Riano, Takashi shogimen, and Bettina Koch. A more unconventional theoretical analysis is offered by Lidia Lanza and Marco Toste, who examine John's distinct use of the Aristotelian four causes (efficient, formal, material and final) when discussing the relation of temporal to spiritual power.But the stand-out piece in the collection is by historians' historian, Karl Ubl, who recently argued that On Royal and Papal Power went through several revisions and originated in early 1302 as a response to a Quodlibet in Paris by James of Viterbo, O.E.S.A., (the papalist author of De regimine Christianorum). Ubl builds on his now foundational work by taking issue with Brian Tierney's Foundations of Conciliar Theory, which reduced John of Paris's ideas to nothing more than a logical consequence of canonistic thought. Looking at the treatment of jurisdiction from the Sentences Commentary to On Royal and Papal Power, Ubl demonstrates how John came to formulate his radical idea of consent-that rightful jurisdiction comes from below rather than from above-and that this formulation was little influenced by canon law. Having precisely traced the radicalization of John's thinking on papal immunity/accountability, Ubl comes to the general conclusion: "Canonists . …