O direito de resistência e o controle do poder: uma necessidade “medieval”

Abstract

The transition from the Late Middle Ages to the Modern Age was a turbulent period: conflicts, the Reformation, the rise of royal power to the detriment of the feudal system, all of this contributed to the secularization of political thought. It was a period marked by the publication of several papers, many of them in pamphlet nature, aimed at publicizing the abuses and convincing new adepts. After the episode in the city of Paris, known as Saint Bartholomew's Night, in 1572, the direction of these writings was changed and the construction of a theory of the right to resist based on political-legal foundations, in addition to religious foundations, became a pressing need. This time, the present research aims to analyze the political and legal foundations of the right of resistance verified at the end of the Low Middle Ages and at the beginning of the Modern Age in order to conclude for the need to control of the power and the role of resistance in the fight against abuse. Therefore, the objective of the research is exploratory and descriptive, using the historical analysis and the bibliographic survey.