Ownership Rights and the Distinction Between 'Use' and 'Ownership'

This chapter explores the concept of ownership rights, discussing the dispute over the vow of poverty in the early thirteenth century and Marcilius of Padua's response to Pope John the Twenty-Second. It examines the noblewoman's donation of bread to a Franciscan house, the idea of something being owned by no one, and briefly mentions William of Pagula's criticism of the practice of purveyance.