ABSTRACT
Kuttner’s article, published in 1953 in a ‘Festschrift’ for the famous German jurist Martin Wolff, who had emigrated to Oxford in the years of the Nazi regime in Germany, lays stress upon the motivation of Pope Honorius III to support the study of theology in Paris instead of secular sciences like law and medicine. He rejects a political interpretation of the constitution ‘Super speculam’, which saw in the papal law an instrument for the struggle between sacerdotium and imperium. Pope Honorius III was no enemy of imperial civil law. (P.L.)
