Abstract
Over thirty years ago the dedicatee of this volume argued that the ardent defender of the hierocratic doctrine of papal monarchy, the Augustinian friar-hermit Augustinus (Triumphus) de Ancona (d. 2 April 1328), anticipated a number of conciliarist positions adopted by William of Ockham, notably concerning the deposition of a heretical pope. Paradoxical as this claim might seem, Wilks could show how both thinkers tried to mould the very idea of popular sovereignty into the traditional concept of papal supremacy itself. Furthermore, as several commentators have pointed out, rigorous consistency was not a prime virtue of this Augustinian friar, who exhibited a tendency to adopt two quite distinct concepts of papal power and to apply them in different contexts.
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