From the recent shared pdf…

Then too, the accelerated discussions of the Donation of Constantine (such as the origin of imperial power, the basis of papal authority over temporals, the pope and the transfer of empire, the pope‟s claims to Rome and the patrimony) since the eleventh century kept alive the issue of the place of Rome in providential history, even if only symbolic, since the empire was now German (or Greek, depending on how one viewed the emperor in Constantinople). However one interpreted the meaning of the Donation and the transfer of empire, the pivotal role of Rome seemed assured. Speaking of the Donation, we should not forget that the ideal of world empire – always linked conceptually in some sense to the Roman empire – continued to be debated in the early fourteenth century. Witness the treatments of world monarchy (read: empire) in Engelbert of Admont, Dante, and William of Ockham. If the idea of Rome could be so elevated, it would be convenient, if need be, to think of an opposite, such as Avignon.