Humanum
genus duobus regitur, naturali uidelicet iure et moribus. Ius naturae est,
quod in lege et euangelio continetur, quo quisque iubetur alii facere, quod
sibi uult fieri, et prohibetur alii inferre, quod sibi nolit fieri. Unde
Christus in euangelio: "Omnia quecunque uultis ut faciant uobis homines, et
uos eadem facite illis." (Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31).
The
Human Race is ruled by two things: namely, natural law and long
standing custom (mos). Ius of nature is what is contained in the law
and the Gospel. By it, each person is commanded to do to others what
he wants done to himself and is prohibited from inflicting on others what he
does not want done to himself. Golden
Rule |
Köln,
Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek
127, fol. 9r (ca. 1160)
When Pope Innocent II invested Emperor
Lothair III with Apulia in 1137 he used a lance with a banner, but the pope
held the upper part of the lance. Hubert Houben, Roger II of
Sicily: A Ruler Between East and West (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks;
Cambridge: 2002) 69 |