LAW AND THEOLOGY IN THE 13TH-CENTURY

In the High Middle Ages, Law and Theology were perceived as novel twin disciplines based on a same principle, contradictory enquiry. From the mid-twelfth to the beginning of the fourteenth century, they constituted the axis of a scholastic episteme. This New Regime of Truth was presented as a construction or reconstruction; the heuristic fiction (that is, replacing a reality by an efficient elaboration) was one of its fundamental constitutive traits. At the intersection of Law and Theology, the concept of <<person>>, once examined, illustrates this analysis. In both fields (but starting from different reference-points, the ficticious person adopted from Roman Law and the distinction individual-person generated by the Trinitarian Dogma) the concept allowed to designate the zone within which the subject of this Truth was relevant, that is, to identify the hub of this episteme.