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This volume publishes new critical editions of five polemical tracts by Ockham that are of great significance to the study of empire, papacy and the Church in the first-half of the 14th century. It completes, posthumously, H.S. Offler's edition of Ockham's shorter political writings. The five works are: "Compendium errorum Ioannis Papae", "Breviloquium de principatu tyrannico", "De imperatorum et pontificum potestate", "Allegationes de potestate imperiali", and "De electione Caroli quarti". Each one is carefully evaluated in a separate introduction. These are important texts for those studying political philosophy and the quarrels between Pope John XXII, the Franciscan Friar Michael of Cesena and the Emperor Lewis of Bavaria.