Author: Allan John MacdonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Authority and Reason in the Early Middle Ages, Etc
Author: Allan John Macdonald MacdonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Authority and Reason in the Early Middle Ages
Author: Allan John MacdonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Authority and Reason in the Early Middle Ages
Author: A. J.. McDonaldAuthorities in the Middle Ages
Author: Sini KangasPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110294567
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Medievalists reading and writing about and around authority-related themes lack clear definitions of its actual meanings in the medieval context. Authorities in the Middle Ages offers answers to this thorny issue through specialized investigations. This book considers the concept of authority and explores the various practices of creating authority in medieval society. In their studies sixteen scholars investigate the definition, formation, establishment, maintenance, and collapse of what we understand in terms of medieval struggles for authority, influence and power. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume resonates with the multi-faceted field of medieval culture, its social structures, and forms of communication. The fields of expertise include history, legal studies, theology, philosophy, politics, literature and art history. The scope of inquiry extends from late antiquity to the mid-fifteenth century, from the Church Fathers debating with pagans to the rapacious ghosts ruining the life of the living in the Sagas. There is a special emphasis on such exciting but understudied areas as the Balkans, Iceland and the eastern fringes of Scandinavia.
Aspects of Power and Authority in the Middle Ages
Author: Brenda BoltonPublisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Concepts of power and authority and the relationship between them were fundamental to many aspects of medieval society. The essays in this collection present a series of case studies that range widely, both chronologically and geographically, from Lombard Italy to early-modern Iberia and from Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and later-medieval England to twelfth-century France and the lands beyond the Elbe in the conversion period. While some papers deal with traditional royal, princely and ecclesiastical authority, they do so in new ways. Others examine groups and aspects less obviously connected to power and authority, such as the networks of influence centring on royal women or powerful ecclesiastics, the power relationships revealed in Anglo-Saxon and Old-Norse literature or the influence that might be exercised by needy crusaders, by Jews with the ability to advance loans or by parish priests on the basis of their local connections. An important section discusses the power of the written word, whether papal bulls, collections of miracle stories, or the documents produced in lawsuits. The papers in this volume demonstrate the variety and multiplicity of both power and authority and the many ways by which individuals exercised influence and exerted a claim to be heard and respected.
Authority and Reason in the Early Middle Ages
Author: Allan J. MacdonaldAuthority and Reason in the Early Middle Ages
Author: Allan John Macdonald MacdonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authority
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Differentiation of Authority
Author: James GreenawayPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813219566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this study, James Greenaway explores the philosophical continuity between contemporary Western society and the Middle Ages. Allowing for genuinely modern innovations, he makes the claim that the medieval search for order remains fundamentally unbroken in our search for order today.
Authority and Reason in the Early Middle Ages
Author: Allan John Smith MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe
Author: Edward PetersPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern Europe theological uniformity was synonymous with social cohesion in societies that regarded themselves as bound together at their most fundamental levels by a religion. To maintain a belief in opposition to the orthodoxy was to set oneself in opposition not merely to church and state but to a whole culture in all of its manifestations. From the eleventh century to the fifteenth, however, dissenting movements appeared with greater frequency, attracted more followers, acquired philosophical as well as theological dimensions, and occupied more and more the time and the minds of religious and civil authorities. In the perception of dissent and in the steps taken to deal with it lies the history of medieval heresy and the force it exerted on religious, social, and political communities long after the Middle Ages. In this volume, Edward Peters makes available the most compact and wide-ranging collection of source materials in translation on medieval orthodoxy and heterodoxy in social context.