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A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages
The medieval dissenters known as ‘Waldenses’, named after their first founder, Valdes of Lyons, have long attracted careful scholarly study, especially from specialists writing in Italian, French and German. Waldenses were found across continental Europe, from Aragon to the Baltic and East-Central Europe. They were long-lived, resilient, and diverse. They lived in a special relationship with the prevailing Catholic culture, making use of the Church’s services but challenging its claims. Many Waldenses are known mostly, or only, because of the punitive measures taken by inquisitors and the Church hierarchy against them. This volume brings for the first time a wide-ranging, multi-authored interpretation of the medieval Waldenses to an English-language readership, across Europe and over the four centuries until the Reformation. Contributors: Marina Benedetti, Peter Biller, Luciana Borghi Cedrini, Euan Cameron, Jacques Chiffoleau, Albert de Lange, Andrea Giraudo, Franck Mercier, Grado Giovanni Merlo, Georg Modestin, Martine Ostorero, Damian J. Smith, Claire Taylor, and Kathrin Utz Tremp.
Les transformacions d'Aristòtil : filosofia natural i medicina a Montpeller : el cas d'Arnau de Vilanova (c. 1240-1311)
Arnau de Vilanova (c. 1240-1311), un dels metges de més prestigi de l'edat mitjana llatina, és autor d'una extensa obra que va contribuir a definir la medicina com a ciència en el sentit escolàstic del terme. Utilitza els diversos gèneres de la literatura mèdica de l'època: el comentari a les autoritats mèdiques, el tractat teòric i de filosofia natural, els aforismes, la summa o compendi de medicina teòrica, el regiment de sanitat, la monografia especialitzada o el tractament específic adreçat a un pacient. La seva medicina s'inscriu dins el galenisme, que arriba a l'edat mitjana gràcies a les traduccions dels metges àrabs. En diverses de les seves obres, també hi constatem l...
Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge
This book examines the social, institutional and cultural setting of medical practices in the medieval town of Montpellier which boasted one of the first universities of the middle ages and a famous school of medicine. Some of its most celebrated masters and their medical works have been thoroughly studied but few of them try to put these in context with a thriving urban community of merchants and craftsmen that were at the core of the city council. Their concurrent efforts will endow Montpellier of a rich health care system featuring not only the university masters but also the city’s barber-surgeons and apothecaries. Their collective fate is revealed here in an integrated picture of health and society in the middle ages.
Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age
In this magisterial work, Joseph O'Callaghan offers a detailed account of the establishment of Alfonso X's legal code, the Libro de las leyes or Siete Partidas, and its applications in the daily life of thirteenth-century Iberia, both within and far beyond the royal courts. O'Callaghan argues that Alfonso X, el Sabio (the Wise), was the Justinian of his age, one of the truly great legal minds of human history. Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age highlights the struggles the king faced in creating a new, coherent, inclusive, and all-embracing body of law during his reign, O'Callaghan also considers Alfonso X's own understanding of his role as king, lawgiver, and defender of the faith in order to evaluate the impact of his achievement on the administration of justice. Indeed, such was the power and authority of the Alfonsine code that it proved the king's downfall when his son invoked it to challenge his rule. Throughout this soaring legal and historical biography, O'Callaghan reminds us of the long-term impacts of Alfonso X's legal works, not just on Castilian (and later, Iberian) life, but on the administration of justice across the world.
Gestas dos condes de Barcelona e reis de Aragão
A tradução das Gestas dos condes de Barcelona e reis de Aragão (Gestes dels comtes de Barcelona i reis d’Aragó) apresenta em seu conteúdo a história da formação do condado de Barcelona desde a sua criação até o reinado de Jaime I de Aragão (1213-1276). De acordo com o prólogo das Gestas, pode-se afirmar que são quatro seus objetivos: 1) comentar sobre o primeiro conde de Barcelona, principalmente as histórias que serviram para formar sua legenda; 2) explicar a reunião dos condados que faziam parte do território da Marca Hispânica e apresentar todos os condes que neles reinaram; 3) explicar a união do reino de Aragão com o condado de Barcelona e 4) narrar todos os feitos realizados pelos condes e condes-reis desta dinastia.
Arnaldi de Villanova. Antidotum contra venenum effusum per fratrem Martinum de Atheca, praedicatorem ; Praesentatio facta Burdegaliae
L'Antidotum contra venenum effusum per fratrem Martinum de Atheca, praedicatorem (en endavant, simplement Antidotum) d'Arnau de Vilanova és una obra molt especial, interessant per múltiples raons, però que, això no obstant, es conserva encara inèdita en dos manuscrits:1 el Vat. lat. 3824, de la Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana i el Canon. Misc. 370, de la Bodleian Library d'Oxford.2Heinrich Finke,3 Franz Ehrle,4 Josep Perarnau o qui signa aquestes pàgines n'han publicat alguns fragments, 5 més o menys breus. No és estrany, doncs,que l'Antidotum només sigui esmentat de passada en els estudis arnaldians crítics.6. L'Antidotum és la darrera obra de caràcter doctrinal de la polèmica escatològica que Arnau de Vilanova va sostenir amb els professors de París i els teòlegs dominicans entre els anys 1300 i 1305 ...[Estudi introductori]
The Death Penalty in Late-Medieval Catalonia
The death penalty was unusual in medieval Europe until the twelfth century. From that moment on, it became a key instrument of rule in European society, and we can study it in the case of Catalonia through its rich and varied unpublished documentation. The death penalty was justified by Roman Law; accepted by Theology and Philosophy for the Common Good; and used by rulers as an instrument for social intimidation. The application of the death penalty followed a regular trial, and the status of the individual dictated the method of execution, reserving the fire for the worst crimes, as the Inquisition applied against the so-called heretics. The executions were public, and the authorities and t...
Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies
Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies reconsiders the influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery De disciplina scolarium on medieval understandings of Boethius (d. 524). Tracing the medieval popularity of De disciplina’s reimagined vision of Boethius alongside the current scholarly neglect of this forged Boethian persona offers insight into how medieval schoolmen saw themselves and the past, and how modern scholars imagine the medieval past. In exploring this alternate Boethian persona through a variety of different works including texts of translatio studii et imperii, common school texts, the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, and humanist writings, this book reveals a new vein of medieval Boethianism that is earthy, practical, and even humorous. Forging Boethius is an essential reference book for students and researchers in the fields of medieval literature and philosophy, as well as for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of one the most significant authors of the Middle Ages.
