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The Common Legal Past of Europe, 1000–1800
A broad history of the western European legal tradition. Bellomo discusses the great jurists who gave common law its intellectual vigor as well as the humanist jurists of the period.
The Crisis of Music in Early Modern Europe, 1470-1530
This is the first serious study of the conflict that affected music in early modern Europe in 1470s - the gradual introduction of polyphony. Examining this major change in sensibility and mentality, Rob C Wegman illuminates a key period of change in Western musical history.
Vulgar Tongue
These essays offer new vistas on the idea of the vernacular in contexts as diverse as Ramon Llull's prefiguration of universal grammar, the orthography of Early Middle English, the struggle for linguistic purity in Early Modern Dutch, and the construction of standard Serbian and Romanian in the waning decades of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Religious Movements in the Middle Ages
Medievalists, historians, and women's studies specialists will welcome this translation of Herbert Grundmann's classic study of religious movements in the Middle Ages because it provides a much-needed history of medieval religious life--one that lies between the extremes of doctrinal classification and materialistic analysis--and because it represents the first major effort to underline the importance of women in the development of the language and practice of religion in the Middle Ages.
A Companion to Joachim of Fiore
Joachim of Fiore (c.1135-1202) remains one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of medieval Christianity. In his own time, he was an influential advisor to the mighty and powerful, widely respected for his prophetic exegesis and decoding of the apocalypse. In modern times, many thinkers, from Thomas Müntzer to Friedrich Engels, have hailed him as a prophet of progress and revolution. Even present-day theologians, philosophers and novelists were inspired by Joachim’s vision of a Third Age of the Holy Spirit. However, at no time was Joachim an uncontroversial figure. Soon after his death, the church authorities became suspicious about the explosive potential of his theology, while more recently historians held him accountable for the fateful progressivism of Western Civilization. Contributors are: Frances Andrews, Valeria De Fraja, Alfredo Gatto, Peter Gemeinhardt, Sven Grosse, Massimo Iiritano, Bernard McGinn, Matthias Riedl, and Brett Edward Whalen.
Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice
This volume explores the integral role of memory and mnemonic techniques in medieval preaching from the thirteenth to the early fifteenth century. It argues that the mendicant orders inherited from the early Middle Ages both the simple mnemonic techniques of rhetorical practice and a tradition of monastic meditation founded on memory images. In the thirteenth century Dominican and Franciscan writers drew on these basic techniques even as they re-evaluated the ancient mnemonic system of the Rhetorica ad Herennium (first century BC). The increasing emphasis that intellectuals placed upon cognitive science, ethics, and on distinctions between rhetoric and logic created a climate that welcomed a...
Pre-histories and Afterlives
"If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference without approaching it on our terms alone? 'Pre-histories' and 'afterlives', critical methods that have emerged in recent work by Terence Cave, offer new ways of shaping the stories we tell of the past and the analyses we offer. In this volume, distinguished contributors engage in a dialogue with these two new critical methods, exploring their uses in a range of contexts, disciplines, languages and periods, ranging from medieval mysticism, through Montaigne and Diderot, to the present day." --Book Jacket.
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell
The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ's spouse was expected to manifest matronly modesty and due submission, hobbling virginity's ancient capacity to destabilize gender roles. In the early Middle Ages, the focus on virginity and the attendant anxiety over its possible loss reinforced the emphasis on claustration in female religious communities, while also profoundly disparaging the nonvirginal members of a given community. With the rising importance of intentionality in determining a person's spiritual profile in the high Middle Ages, the ti...
Savonarola als Apologet
Savonarola (1452-1498) hat sich als vordringlichste, bislang kaum beachtete Aufgabe die Begründung der Wahrheit des Christentums gestellt. In seiner Jugend selbst in der Versuchung, das katholische Christentum mit einer neuepikureischen Weltanschauung zu vertauschen, sucht er zeitlebens Argumente für die Wahrheit des Glaubens. Im Anschluss an den aristotelischen Empirismus und in Parallele zur naturwissenschaftlichen Methode versucht er einen Induktionsbeweis für die Wahrheit des Christentums: Die Beobachtung des ethischen Verhaltens der Christen und die kausale Analyse dieser Wahrnehmungsdaten sollen den Schluss ermöglichen, dass der solches Verhalten motivierende Glaube wahr sei.
