Author : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004110960
This collection of essays provides new insight based on archival research into the medieval formation of human institutions of government, hospitals and warfare in Spain and England.
Author : Antonia Fitzpatrick
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Individualism
ISBN : 9781912702275
Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism is one of the first pieces of close exploratory scholarship on the fundamental relationship between medieval scholastic thought, individual scholars, and their institutions. The text revolves around these essential questions: What was the relationship between particular intellectuals and their wider networks (including but not limited to "schools"), how did intellectuals shape their institutions, and how were their institutions shaped by them? This theoretically sophisticated collection uses a range of European methodological approaches to address a variety of genres such as commentaries, quodlibetal questions, polemics, epic poetry, and inquisition records, and a range of subject matter including history, practical ethics, medicine, theology, philosophy, the constitution of religious orders, the practice of confession, and the institution of cults. This book will be an important reference point for medieval historians, while also raising questions relevant to those working on individualization and institutionalization in other periods and disciplines.
Author : Ionuţ Epurescu-Pascovici
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1783275766
Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages.
Author : Joseph R. Strayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1400828570
The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This short, clear book book explores the European state in its infancy, especially in institutional developments in the administration of justice and finance. Forewords from Charles Tilly and William Chester Jordan demonstrate the perennial importance of Joseph Strayer's book, and situate it within a contemporary context. Tilly demonstrates how Strayer’s work has set the agenda for a whole generation of historical analysts, not only in medieval history but also in the comparative study of state formation. William Chester Jordan's foreword examines the scholarly and pedagogical setting within which Strayer produced his book, and how this both enhanced its accessibility and informed its focus on peculiarly English and French accomplishments in early state formation.
Author : Jessica L. Goldberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139560468
The Geniza merchants of the eleventh-century Mediterranean - sometimes called the 'Maghribi traders' - are central to controversies about the origins of long-term economic growth and the institutional bases of trade. In this book, Jessica Goldberg reconstructs the business world of the Geniza merchants, maps the shifting geographic relationships of the medieval Islamic economy and sheds new light on debates about the institutional framework for later European dominance. Commercial letters, business accounts and courtroom testimony bring to life how these medieval traders used personal gossip and legal mechanisms to manage far-flung agents, switched business strategies to manage political risks and asserted different parts of their fluid identities to gain advantage in the multicultural medieval trading world. This book paints a vivid picture of the everyday life of Jewish merchants in Islamic societies and adds new depth to debates about medieval trading institutions with unique quantitative analyses and innovative approaches.
Author : Avner Greif
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521480444
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Author : Leah Lydia Otis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226640345
"Prostitution in Medieval Society, a monograph about Languedoc between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, is also much more than that: it is a compelling narrative about the social construction of sexuality." – Catharine R. Stimpson
Author : Irina Metzler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0415822599
This book covers the social history of disability in the Middle Ages. By exploring cultural discourses of medieval disability, the volume opens up the subject of disability history prior to the modern period. The wealth, variety and significance of sources inform how law, work, age and charity affected medieval disability.
Author : Bernhard Jussen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812235616
"These essays challenge a once-dominant mode of German medieval studies, "constitutional history." In doing so, they reimage a more dynamic and less hierarchical Middle Ages."—Medieval Review
Author : Adam J. Davis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501742124
In The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, alongside an emerging culture of Christian charity, led to the establishment of hundreds of hospitals and leper houses. Focusing on the county of Champagne, he looks at the ways in which charitable organizations and individuals—townspeople, merchants, aristocrats, and ecclesiastics—saw in these new institutions a means of infusing charitable giving and service with new social significance and heightened expectations of spiritual rewards. In tracing the rise of the medieval hospital during a period of intense urbanization and the transition from a gift economy to a commercial one, Davis makes clear how embedded this charitable institution was in the wider social, cultural, religious, and economic fabric of medieval life.
